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Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Middle East)

Cohere
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 5 days ago
Enterprise software deploymentPrivate cloudHybrid cloudOn-premises deploymentKubernetesHelm
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About Cohere

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end products for real-world business problems.

The company trains and deploys frontier models for enterprises building AI systems.

About North and the Role

North is Cohere’s secure and customizable AI workspace platform for enterprise deployment and sensitive data control.

The role bridges the North product and client engineering teams, integrating AI into sectors including finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.

The company is seeking engineers who care deeply about customers and agentic AI.

Responsibilities

  • Lead planning, configuration, testing, and rollout of North in private-cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Assess client infrastructure, security requirements, and data-management practices with enterprise IT teams.
  • Design secure, compliant deployment strategies tailored to client needs.
  • Troubleshoot deployment issues and provide timely solutions to minimize downtime.
  • Travel to customer premises for 20–40% of the role.

Qualifications

  • Experience working directly with customers.
  • Experience deploying enterprise software in private or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Production administration experience with large-scale Kubernetes clusters and expertise with Helm.
  • Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Git.
  • Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, and virtualization across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Fluency in Arabic and English.

Bonus Skills

  • Familiarity with GPU node orchestration and scheduling is a bonus.
  • Understanding of GPU infrastructure, inference systems, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and performance optimization is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Full-time employees receive health and dental benefits, retirement contributions, parental leave top-up, paid vacation, and annual enrichment benefits.
  • Employees receive lunch, education and learning, workspace, and remote-office support benefits.

How and Where We Work

  • Cohere is remote-friendly and has offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul.
  • Employees not near an office may use a co-working benefit and receive a home-office stipend.

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