Fortreum
Cleared Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Fort Meade, MD, Remote. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will embed with enterprise and federal customers to deploy, integrate, and operationalize the Kovr AI Platform. You will build integrations with DevSecOps toolchains, automate evidence collection, and configure compliance workflows.
What you will do
- Deploy, configure, and operationalize the Kovr AI Platform within customer environments
- Build and maintain integrations between the platform and customers' existing DevSecOps toolchains, CI/CD pipelines, and compliance workflows
- Develop automation for evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and RMF authorization processes
- Write and maintain code, scripts, and infrastructure-as-code to provision and configure platform components
- Customize and extend platform workflows and data pipelines to meet compliance framework requirements
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across deployment, integration, data ingestion, and performance
- Serve as the hands-on technical bridge between customers and Kovr's engineering team
- Partner with the DevOps team to ensure secure, reliable, and compliant operation of customer deployments
- Lead technical onboarding and enablement for customer engineering teams
- Produce technical documentation, runbooks, and deployment guides
Required qualifications
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph
- 5+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps experience in enterprise or federal IT environments
- Hands-on experience deploying and integrating software across cloud platforms (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, GCP) and hybrid or on-premises environments
- Strong proficiency with DevSecOps pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)
- Experience with API development and integration patterns across enterprise systems
- Experience deploying or operating software in classified or air-gapped environments supporting DoD Impact Levels (IL2-IL6)
- Working knowledge of compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, RMF, FISMA, and CMMC
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LLM integration, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures, or other enterprise AI/ML implementation
- Cloud certification such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or Azure/GCP equivalents
- Security certification such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or Security+
Benefits
- medical insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- 401K plan with a 4% match
- company paid short-term disability
- company paid long-term disability
- company paid AD&D and life insurance
- flex time off
- annual bonuses
- training stipends
- certification reimbursements
- access to over 30,000 free online training courses
Before you apply
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph required
- All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States
About the company
Fortreum is a leader in cloud and cybersecurity services, ranked among the Top 5 FedRAMP Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAO). They deliver regulatory assessment and advisory services alongside advanced cybersecurity offensive and compliance technical solutions.