Senior Forward Deploy Engineer

1 month, 1 week ago
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
Armada

Armada

Armada is a full-stack edge infrastructure company that specializes in edge computing and AI solutions tailored for remote and rugged environments. Through its Armada Edge Platform (AEP), the company provides compute, storage, connectivity, and AI/ML capabilities. Armada operates in over 100 countries, addressing operational challenges with thousands of connected assets and active users. The company focuses on simplifying data management and AI deployment in disconnected settings, making it easier for industries to leverage technology. Armada's product lineup includes Atlas, a tool for monitoring IoT devices; Galleon, ruggedized modular data centers for AI inference; Bridge, a platform for managing GPUs; and a Marketplace for hardware and software for remote operations. Armada serves various sectors, including oil and gas, public sector, manufacturing, mining, logistics, and telecommunications, enhancing safety, productivity, and automation in challenging environments.

information technology & services
201-500
Founded 2022
$226M raised

Description

  • Lead end-to-end deployment of Armada platforms, including Atlas, Galleon with AEP, and Leviathan AI Factory integrated with Bridge GPU-as-a-Service.
  • Own on-site and in-country deployments across Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East region.
  • Own infrastructure bring-up, platform configuration, and production readiness validation.
  • Make real-time technical decisions across hardware, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU layers.
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers after go-live.
  • Own the technical success plan, adoption milestones, and operational maturity roadmap for each customer.
  • Build trusted relationships with customer engineering, IT, OT, and security teams.
  • Drive technical governance discussions, roadmap planning, platform optimization, and expansion opportunities.
  • Build and actively manage Joint Success Plans to track priorities, risks, dependencies, and customer value.
  • Coordinate with Product, Engineering, Support, and Sales to resolve issues, share feedback, and support expansion.
  • Ensure customer environments remain stable, secure, and production-ready while identifying scaling risks and technical debt.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to deployment standards, runbooks, and best practices.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, forward-deployed engineering, or technical account roles.
  • Proven ability to own both hands-on delivery and long-term customer technical relationships.
  • Deep technical expertise across Linux, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU-accelerated compute.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills in live, production environments.
  • Experience working directly with customers in regulated, high-stakes settings.
  • Willingness to travel across Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East region.
  • Clear, confident communication style suitable for executive and engineering audiences.
  • Experience with edge compute, modular data centers, or distributed infrastructure (preferred).
  • Familiarity with AI workloads, GPU clusters, and high-performance computing environments (preferred).
  • Exposure to sovereign or national-scale customer environments (preferred).
  • Experience operating in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, or across the Middle East (preferred).
  • Comfort operating with ambiguity and owning outcomes end to end (preferred).

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on transformative sovereign AI and edge infrastructure deployed in over 60 countries.
  • Backed by more than $200 million in funding and investors including Microsoft (M12) and Founders Fund.
  • Strategic partnerships with companies such as Starlink, Skydio, and NVIDIA.
  • Role offers full lifecycle ownership rather than split deployment and post-sale responsibilities.
  • Opportunity to work in a high-autonomy, high-impact environment.
  • Equal opportunity employer committed to fair hiring and an inclusive workplace.

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