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With the addition of Kovr.AI, we have expanded our capabilities to include advanced cyber risk quantification and analytics, enabling organizations to better understand, measure, and communicate risk. Together, we deliver independent, third-party, vendor-agnostic regulatory assessment and advisory services, alongside advanced cybersecurity offensive and compliance technical solutions. Our comprehensive service portfolio spans regulatory compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, CMMC, FISMA, SOC, PCI, ISO, and HIPAA.\nWorking with Fortune 500 companies and leading cloud service providers, we’ve built our reputation on service-delivery excellence and an unwavering commitment to client success. Our continued rapid growth creates exceptional opportunities for driven professionals to make their mark in the cybersecurity industry-guided by our core values: quality above all, a customer-driven mindset, autonomy, and personal accountability.\nThe Opportunity\nOn our team, you will have the opportunity to work with industry-leading experts who’ve supported the world’s most security-conscious organizations. As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed with enterprise and federal customers to deploy, integrate, and operationalize the Kovr AI Platform within their environments-building integrations with their DevSecOps toolchains, automating evidence collection and continuous monitoring, and configuring compliance workflows that accelerate Authority to Operate (ATO). You will serve as the hands-on technical bridge between our customers and Kovr’s engineering team, solving complex deployment challenges across cloud, hybrid, and classified National Security and Intelligence Community (IC) environments.\nKey Responsibilities\nDeploy, configure, and operationalize the Kovr AI Platform within customer environments, including cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments supporting IL2-IL6 requirements\n\nBuild and maintain integrations between the platform and customers’ existing DevSecOps toolchains, CI/CD pipelines, and compliance workflows\n\nDevelop automation for evidence collection, continuous monitoring, and RMF authorization processes, including SSP generation, control mapping, and POA&M workflows\n\nWrite and maintain code, scripts, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Helm) to provision and configure platform components and customer integrations\n\nCustomize and extend platform workflows and data pipelines to meet each customer’s compliance framework requirements (NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, CMMC, RMF)\n\nTroubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across deployment, integration, data ingestion, and performance, often on-site or within classified environments\n\nServe as the hands-on technical bridge between customers and Kovr’s engineering team, translating real-world deployment needs into product requirements and feature requests\n\nPartner with the DevOps team to ensure secure, reliable, and compliant operation of customer deployments, including monitoring, logging, and incident response\n\nLead technical onboarding and enablement for customer engineering teams to drive successful adoption and self-sufficiency\n\nProduce technical documentation, runbooks, and deployment guides that support repeatable, scalable implementations\n\nBasic Qualifications\nActive Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph\n\n5+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps experience in enterprise or federal IT environments\n\nHands-on experience deploying and integrating software across cloud platforms (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, GCP) and hybrid or on-premises environments\n\nStrong proficiency with DevSecOps pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD)\n\nProficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) for building integrations and automation\n\nExperience with API development and integration patterns across enterprise systems\n\nExperience deploying or operating software in classified or air-gapped environments supporting DoD Impact Levels (IL2-IL6)\n\nWorking knowledge of compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, RMF, FISMA, and CMMC, including ATO processes, SSP development, and continuous monitoring\n\nStrong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work directly with customer engineering teams\n\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to serve as a technical bridge between customers and product and engineering teams\n\nFamiliarity with LLM integration, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures, or other enterprise AI/ML implementation (preferred)\n\nCloud certification such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or Azure/GCP equivalents (preferred)\n\nSecurity certification such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or Security+ (preferred)\n\nPosted Salary Range\n$180,000 - $260,000 annual salary\nWhat Fortreum Offers\nWe offer a competitive compensation package, where you will be rewarded based on your performance/outcomes and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Our benefits package includes medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401K plan with a 4% match, company paid short-term disability, company paid long-term disability, company paid AD&D and life insurance, flex time off, annual bonuses, training stipends, certification reimbursements, access to over 30,000 free online training courses, personal cell phone allowance, new hire and annual home office stipend, spot awards and eleven paid holidays.\nAn Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer\nFortreum is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan or policy statement, please email . 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