Saudi Arabia Remote (Country)

Armada is hiring a Senior Forward Deploy Engineer

About the Role

Lead the technical delivery and ongoing success of advanced edge infrastructure platforms for customers across Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East. This role blends deep technical execution with long-term account ownership, ensuring platforms are deployed effectively and evolve to meet customer needs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Direct full lifecycle deployment of edge computing systems, including configuration, validation, and production readiness across hardware, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU layers
  • Serve as the primary technical contact after go-live, guiding adoption, operational maturity, and platform optimization
  • Develop and maintain Joint Success Plans, aligning technical milestones with business outcomes and using them to guide prioritization and risk management
  • Build trusted relationships with customer engineering, IT, OT, and security teams through consistent, clear communication and technical leadership
  • Identify expansion opportunities by assessing workload growth, cross-business use cases, and regional scaling potential
  • Proactively detect architectural limitations, scaling constraints, and technical debt, coordinating resolution with internal engineering and product teams
  • Ensure compliance with sovereign data policies, security standards, and access controls specific to national and regulated environments
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to deployment runbooks, best practices, and operational standards
  • Provide structured feedback to Product and Engineering teams based on real-world deployment challenges and customer usage patterns

Required Qualifications

  • 8+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or technical account management with hands-on deployment experience
  • Strong command of Linux, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU-accelerated environments
  • Proven ability to manage technical relationships in high-pressure, regulated sectors
  • Skilled at troubleshooting in live production systems and making real-time decisions under pressure
  • Willingness to travel frequently within Saudi Arabia and the region for on-site deployments
  • Clear communication style effective across engineering teams and executive stakeholders

Preferred Background

  • Experience with edge computing, modular data centers, or distributed infrastructure deployments
  • Familiarity with AI training/inference workloads and GPU cluster operations
  • Work history in sovereign or national-scale technology environments
  • Experience operating in Saudi Arabia, UAE, or other Middle Eastern markets
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity and own outcomes from start to finish

Technical Environment

Linux, Networking, Kubernetes, Storage, GPU-accelerated compute, Atlas, Galleon, Armada Edge Platform (AEP), Leviathan AI Factory, Bridge GPU-as-a-Service

Work Mode

This position requires on-site presence for deployments across Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, with ongoing in-country customer engagement. The role demands flexibility to support time-sensitive go-lives and post-deployment optimization cycles.

Required Skills
LinuxNetworkingKubernetesStorageGPU-accelerated computeTroubleshootingCustomer-facing engineeringSREPlatform EngineeringCloud InfrastructureEdge Computing LinuxNetworkingKubernetesStorageGPU-accelerated computeSREPlatform EngineeringTroubleshootingCustomer EngagementTechnical Account Management
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Edge computing startup that provides computing infrastructure to remote areas where connectivity and cloud infrastructure is limited, and areas where data needs to be processed locally for real-time analytics and AI at the edge.
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Category infrastructure
Posted 11 days ago