INACTIVE

Full-Time

Forward Deployed DevOps Engineer

Posted on 7/4/2025

a37

1-10 employees

Cloud management for Infrastructure as Code

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category

DevOps & Infrastructure (1)

Required Skills

Datadog

Kubernetes

Grafana

Github Actions

opentelemetry

Docker

Prometheus

Terraform

Buildkite

DevOps

CircleCI

Linux/Unix

Requirements

4+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure
Proven success juggling multiple projects or consulting engagements
Deep experience with at least one major cloud plus Kubernetes
Hands-on Terraform (or Pulumi/CDK) and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, Buildkite)
Observability chops: Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.
Strong fundamentals in networking, Linux, containers, and security
Titles and exact years matter less than demonstrated skill and learning speed

Responsibilities

Own green-field & brown-field infra. Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, IaC, monitoring, and incident response
Lead “day-zero” engagements. In your first week on a new account, run a lightweight discovery, draft a 30–60–90-day infra plan, and drive exec buy-in
Ship fixes, not tickets. You’ll hold the pager, debug outages, and push code that prevents the next one
Level-up teams. Pair-program, run brownbags, and write concise runbooks so founders can stay focused on product
Feedback-loop back home. Capture patterns from the field to improve our internal tooling and playbooks

Desired Qualifications

Prior “forward-deployed” or consulting experience
Experience hardening SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA environments
Serverless, data-platform, or multi-cloud routing expertise
Go or Python for bespoke tooling (we use both)

Forge is building the world’s first AI-native DevOps workspace, a unified environment that learns from every deployment, automates runbooks, and gives engineers superpowers. We're looking for clear communicators with a breadth of DevOps skills that take pride and ownership in their work. If you crave variety, love green-field challenges, and want to shape the future of AI-powered infrastructure, you’ll thrive here.

This job is fully remote.

Qualifications

As a Forward Deployed DevOps Engineer, you’ll embed directly with companies, shipping infrastructure that keeps them moving fast without sacrificing reliability, best practices, or security.

What you’ll do

Own green-field & brown-field infra. Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, IaC, monitoring, and incident response.
Lead “day-zero” engagements. In your first week on a new account, run a lightweight discovery, draft a 30–60–90-day infra plan, and drive exec buy-in.
Ship fixes, not tickets. You’ll hold the pager, debug outages, and push code that prevents the next one.
Level-up teams. Pair-program, run brownbags, and write concise runbooks so founders can stay focused on product.
Feedback-loop back home. Capture patterns from the field to improve our internal tooling and playbooks.

You likely have

4+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure.
Proven success juggling multiple projects or consulting engagements.
Deep experience with at least one major cloud plus Kubernetes.
Hands-on Terraform (or Pulumi/CDK) and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, Buildkite).
Observability chops: Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.
Strong fundamentals in networking, Linux, containers, and security.
(Titles and exact years matter less than demonstrated skill and learning speed.)

Nice-to-haves

Prior “forward-deployed” or consulting experience.
Experience hardening SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA environments.
Serverless, data-platform, or multi-cloud routing expertise.
Go or Python for bespoke tooling (we use both).

a37

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A37.ai provides cloud management tools that help developers and AI researchers manage cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code. Its products, CloudScript and Forge, automate provisioning, configuration, and governance of cloud resources to run at scale. Unlike general cloud platforms, A37.ai focuses on the developer experience and automation to reduce manual work and inefficiencies, enabling faster deployment and management of cloud workloads. The company's goal is to boost productivity and accelerate progress in software development and AI research by delivering reliable, scalable cloud management.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Spring, Texas

Founded

2024

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

Unveiled Forge in May 2025 reduces deployment times for early testers.
Offers pay-as-you-go access to senior DevOps engineers for custom projects.
Fixed-scope six-to-eight-week engagements transform repetitive DevOps toil.

What critics are saying

Forge.ai replicates A37's AI-native DevOps automation and service model.
Applied37's Forge launch in May 2025 copies A37's product claims.
Cloud providers integrate native AI-assisted IaC at zero marginal cost.

What makes a37 unique

A37.ai trains fully autonomous DevOps engineers in AI research lab.
CloudScript offers next-generation IaC with 400+ integrations and VS Code extension.
Forge provides AI-native DevOps workspace automating infrastructure tasks.

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