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Salary: USD 170,000 - 200,000 / annual
Virtru is a venture-backed data protection company (backed by Iconiq Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundry Capital, and Tiger Global) that reimagines security through its Trusted Data Format (TDF) open standard and Data Security Platform (DSP). The company enables organizations to share data securely without sacrificing control or privacy.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly onsite at government agencies and defense customer facilities to deploy and operationalize Virtru's data protection solutions across mixed Windows and Linux infrastructures in secure, mission-critical environments. You will serve as the technical bridge between Virtru's platform capabilities and agency-specific security requirements, ensuring successful adoption of the DSP within complex government infrastructures spanning Windows enterprise environments and Linux-based cloud-native platforms.
Key responsibilities include:
- Deploy and configure Virtru's Data Security Platform across classified and unclassified government environments, adapting to customer-specific security controls, compliance frameworks, and infrastructure (Windows Server, Linux, Kubernetes clusters)
- Integrate DSP with government infrastructure including Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows authentication systems, and Linux-based microservices architectures
- Architect and manage containerized DSP deployments on Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, Rancher), including Helm chart customization, pod networking, and persistent storage
- Work directly with customer technical teams to translate mission requirements into technical implementations
- Troubleshoot complex integration challenges across diverse technology stacks, coordinating between customer teams, Virtru Engineering, and third-party vendors
- Build and maintain deployment runbooks, configuration guides, and automation scripts (PowerShell, Bash) tailored to government environments
- Surface field-observed gaps, edge cases, and enhancement opportunities to Virtru Product and Engineering based on real-world deployments
Requirements:
- Active U.S. TS (Top Secret) clearance required; CI poly preferred
- Minimum 5+ years of experience as a deployment engineer or solutions engineer with expertise in customer-facing technical implementations and system integrations in government environments
- Strong hands-on experience with containerization, Kubernetes (K8s), and orchestration tools such as OpenShift, Rancher, and Helm
- Familiarity with managing services on cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Tanzu
- Hands-on experience setting up and troubleshooting certificate and DNS issues on Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows environments
- Familiarity with Identity Providers (IdPs) such as Keycloak, PingFederate
- Comfortable working in air-gapped environments
- Ability to excel both independently and as part of a collaborative team
- Effective communication and collaboration skills with onsite customers and support teams
- Willingness to work onsite and travel to meet mission requirements
