Forward Deployed Engineer (Staff)
AI summary of the role
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with enterprise customers across the full lifecycle of Kubernetes platform modernization, stateful workload migration, and AI infrastructure deployments.
What you’ll do
- Architect and operate VKS clusters across VMware Cloud Foundation and hybrid cloud environments
- Lead bare-metal, legacy data-stack, and stateful workload migrations to Kubernetes
- Deploy and optimize GPU-accelerated AI inferencing, RAG, vector search, and model-serving workloads
- Write field production code, build manifests, and troubleshoot live networking, storage, and GPU failures
What you’ll bring
- 12+ years of related experience
- Hands-on expertise operating GPU-accelerated Kubernetes infrastructure and AI serving runtimes
- Experience with stateful distributed systems, messaging, caching, data, and analytics workloads
- Technical depth across enterprise Kubernetes distributions including OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, or Rancher
Technologies
Kubernetes · vSphere Kubernetes Service · VMware Cloud Foundation · NVIDIA vGPU · MIG · vLLM · Ray · Apache Kafka · Terraform · ArgoCD
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