Manager Forward Deployment Engineer (DevOps, AI Deployment)

*AI Deployment & DevOps Engineering | Forward Deployed Engineering*

Experience Required

9 to 16 years, including team and delivery leadership.

Job Summary

An engineering leader who owns how AI solutions are deployed into enterprise environments across a set of accounts. You will own delivery, standards, and the customer relationship, and set the direction for building, securing, and operating AI applications in production on AWS.

Key Responsibilities
- Own the delivery of AI deployment work across your accounts, including scope, quality, timelines, and standards.
- Set direction and standards for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud architecture, security, and MLOps/LLMOps.
- Lead the responsible integration of AI solutions into legacy and regulated enterprise environments at scale.
- Act as senior escalation and decision-maker on complex or high-stakes deployments.
- Build reusable accelerators and patterns that raise deployment quality across the practice.
- Build, lead, and grow the team through hiring, coaching,



and development.
- Own senior customer relationships and communicate progress, risks, and value.
- Surface delivery friction and product gaps to leadership as structured field intelligence.

Required Qualifications
- Extensive DevOps or platform engineering experience, including leading teams and owning delivery at scale.
- Current depth in AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Proven enterprise integration experience with security, identity, and governance constraints.
- Proven ownership of delivery outcomes and senior customer relationships.
- A clear strategy for productionising AI at scale (LLMOps/MLOps), including responsible AI, backed by delivery experience.
- Solid leadership and communication skills; decisive under pressure.
- Mandatory: AWS, DevOps, or GenAI certification (at least one) is required.

Preferred Qualifications
- AWS enterprise-scale architecture ex

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