Field Strategist, Forward Deployed Engineer in South Africa at Jobgether

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Field Strategist, Forward Deployed Engineer in South Africa.

This role sits at the intersection of deep technical engineering, enterprise strategy, and customer impact, focusing on solving complex adoption challenges in large-scale and highly regulated environments. You will work directly with strategic customers to design, deploy, and optimize advanced DevSecOps and AI-enabled platforms in real-world conditions. Acting as both an engineer and a technical advisor, you will translate customer constraints into scalable architecture patterns and reusable solutions. The environment is fast-paced, highly collaborative, and deeply technical, requiring strong systems thinking and the ability to operate across ambiguous, high-stakes enterprise contexts. Your work will directly influence how organizations adopt and scale modern software delivery and AI workflows. This is a high-impact role where customer outcomes and product evolution are tightly connected.

• Lead deep technical discovery with strategic enterprise customers to assess platform readiness, identify constraints, and define high-value adoption paths across DevSecOps and AI workflows
• Design and implement scalable deployment architectures for complex environments, including self-managed, regulated, and constrained infrastructures
• Develop reusable technical assets such as reference architectures, deployment patterns, accelerators, and governance frameworks
• Build and validate prototypes, proofs of concept, and production-ready solutions across CI/CD, security, compliance, and AI-enabled systems
• Collaborate closely with customer stakeholders and internal teams to prioritize initiatives based on business impact, technical feasibility, and long-term scalability
• Contribute to product and engineering improvements by translating field insights into architecture recommendations, design inputs, or upstream code changes when needed
• Support strategic customer engagements and architecture workshops, including travel as required

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, technical consulting, forward deployed engineering, or customer-facing architecture roles
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with ability to understand and contribute to production systems (experience with Ruby on Rails and/or Go is a plus)
• Deep systems design and architecture expertise, including CI/CD systems, APIs, distributed systems, and operational tradeoffs
• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, pipeline design, YAML, runners, and APIs
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar
• Familiarity with enterprise deployment challenges including security, compliance, networking, and scalability constraints
• Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, including LLMs, agentic workflows, and tool orchestration in production contexts
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage senior technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to create reusable technical frameworks, documentation, or assets that scale beyond a single customer engagement
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-paced, and globally distributed environments

Benefits:

• Fully remote work with global flexibility
• Flexible paid time off to support work-life balance
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
• Annual growth and development budget for learning and professional development
• Comprehensive parental leave policies
• Home office support and equipment provision
• Access to team member resource groups and inclusive community initiatives
• Opportunity to work on high-impact, cutting-edge DevSecOps and AI platform challenges at scale