Senior Forward Deployed Engineer- Infrastructure

In this role you will own complex enterprise deployments for an early, well-funded London AI startup, shaping how its technology reaches large organisations. You will be the primary technical liaison for enterprise customers, collaborating with founders and cross-functional teams to design secure, scalable deployments. Your work will sit at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, security, and customer delivery, delivering trusted AI solutions in highly regulated environments. This is a hands-on, high-ownership position in a fast-moving startup with a meaningful impact on how the platform scales for enterprise customers.

• competitive senior-level package
• London-based with flexible working
• early-stage, well-funded AI business
• direct access to founders
• significant ownership over deployments
• exposure to major enterprise customers across regulated industries

• Own enterprise deployments from discovery to production
• Act as the primary technical representative for major customers
• Collaborate with client infrastructure, networking, identity, and security teams
• Design and implement secure deployment architectures on Azure and private environments
• Navigate enterprise security requirements and overcome deployment challenges
• Troubleshoot across cloud, application code, networking and integrations
• Build reusable deployment tooling, IaC, and security processes
• Turn customer feedback into platform improvements
• Help establish a repeatable, scalable deployment model for growth

• 7+ years in software engineering, cloud infra, or related roles
• Strong Azure experience: architecture, networking, identity, security
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates
• Solid enterprise security practices knowledge (IAM, private connectivity, governance)
• Experience deploying production systems in complex enterprise environments
• Python or similar language for application engineering
• Excellent communication; able to lead conversations with senior engineers and executives
• Ability to work independently and own technical decisions in a fast-moving startup environment

• confident communicator
• high ownership
• commercial awareness
• Azure cloud architecture
• Networking and security in Azure
• IAM and private connectivity