Forward Deployed Engineer Infrastructure Specialist

40 minutes agoSalary: 215K - 385KOttawa; Canada Hybrid Full Time Forward Deployed Engineer Jobs by Cohere

Cohere

Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building foundation models, agentic AI, enterprise search, and private deployment products.

Series D Company intelligence

Toronto, Canada

Funding history

Second close of latest round ($100M)Series D extension ($500M)Series D ($500M)

Investors

Fujitsu Nvidia Inovia Capital Section 32 Index Ventures

About Cohere

Cohere provides enterprise-focused AI models and end-to-end products, including North for agentic workplace AI, Compass for enterprise search, and models for generation and retrieval. It supports private, VPC, and on-premises deployment options.

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Skills

Access Control Aws Azure Ci/Cd Compliance Data Management Data Sovereignty Deployment Devops Gcp Git Helm Infrastructure Kubernetes Networking Public Sector Security Security Clearance Virtualization

Candidate Availability

Hybrid · Ottawa · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will work with public-sector customers to deploy solutions in private-cloud and on-premises environments. You will assess security and infrastructure needs, implement compliant deployment strategies, and resolve deployment issues.

Requirements

Customer-facing engineering experience
Experience deploying enterprise software in private or hybrid cloud environments
Experience administering production Kubernetes clusters
Helm expertise
DevOps practices
CI/CD pipelines
Git
Cloud infrastructure expertise
Azure
AWS
GCP
Networking
Virtualization
Canadian public-sector security and compliance requirements
Data sovereignty
Access control
Active Top Secret clearance preferred or eligibility and willingness to obtain clearance

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end deployments in private-cloud and on-premises environments
Assess infrastructure, security requirements, and data-management practices with enterprise IT teams
Design and implement deployment strategies tailored to client needs
Troubleshoot and resolve deployment-related technical issues

Benefits

Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or local equivalent
Health and dental benefits
Mental health budget
RRSP matching
401K
Pension Scheme
Parental leave top-up for up to six months
Arts and culture benefit
Fitness and wellness benefit
Quality-time benefit
Workspace improvement credit
Six weeks of paid vacation
Budget for travel to other offices for remote employees
Annual company offsite
Co-working benefit
Home office stipend of $500