We need someone capable of managing complex deployments in classified environments with full accountability for technical outcomes, diagnosing and resolving critical failures in real-time without escalation paths or external dependencies, and mentoring junior engineers and establishing technical standards that scale across customer engagements.

As a key partner to engineering, Security/Compliance, and Product leadership, you will feed customer operational challenges and platform gaps directly into development priorities, ensure 2F's platform serves warfighter needs, serving as the senior technical authority for 2F's most demanding customer relationships.

Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:

DC/Maryland/Virginia

Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC

Denver/Colorado Springs, CO

Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

Own end-to-end technical delivery for 2F's highest-complexity government and defense engagements — architecting, deploying, and sustaining Game Warden and integrated customer workloads across classified networks, DDIL environments, and multiple Impact Levels (IL2–IL6) and JWICS.

Serve as the senior technical escalation point and primary client-facing authority, representing 2F to senior customer stakeholders (program managers, ISSOs/ISSMs, mission owners) and making real-time architectural and risk-tradeoff decisions on-site.

Lead and mentor other Forward Deployed and DevSecOps Engineers — setting technical standards, reviewing designs, and building the playbooks that let the team scale to new missions faster.

Deploy and harden secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure (Talos Linux, Docker, Istio, GitLab, Helm, Terraform) to sustain a Zero Trust (ZT) environment across customer cloud and on prem environments.

Translate field experience into product and platform improvements, working directly with Engineering and Product leadership to prioritize the roadmap based on real deployment friction.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Qualification

Preferred

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Company

Second-Front-Systems

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