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Forward Deployed Engineer (AgenticOps)

Forward Deployed Engineer (AgenticOps)

Full-time
Onsite - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (travel to customers)
Reports to: Head of Delivery

About the Position

CloudThinker is an AgenticOps platform where AI agents operate cloud infrastructure alongside human teams. As a Forward Deployed Engineer you embed with our customers and make agentic operations real on their infrastructure: you encode their runbooks into skills, design the guardrails and approval policies the agents run under, graduate agents from notify to autonomous one trusted task at a time, and own the business outcome — not the ticket count. This is the role for a strong DevOps/SRE engineer ready to move up a layer: the agents take the execution, you take the judgment.

What You'll Do

  • Embed directly with customer teams — onsite and remote — to deploy CloudThinker against their production AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes environments
  • Translate the customer's tribal knowledge and runbooks into Workspace Skills the agents execute: cost optimization, incident response, patching, drift reconciliation, health checks, and reporting
  • Design the trust ladder per environment and per task — what agents may do autonomously, what needs approval, and what evidence graduates a task to the next level
  • Own guardrail and approval policy: scoped credentials, connection tiers, audit requirements, and compliance constraints
  • Run the first incidents and cost runs side-by-side with the customer, then hand the encoded playbook to the agents and supervise
  • Own the outcome numbers — cost reduced, MTTR cut, toil hours returned — and present them to customer engineering leadership
  • Feed field reality back into Product and Engineering: missing skills, guardrail gaps, and the friction that separates a demo from a deployment

Requirements

  • 3+ years hands-on DevOps, SRE, or cloud operations experience — you have carried a pager and made production changes under pressure
  • Deep working knowledge of at least one major cloud (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP welcome) and Kubernetes — cost, IAM, networking, and observability included
  • Runbook fluency: you have written the procedures, not just followed them, and you can decompose an operational task precisely enough for an agent to execute it
  • Blast-radius judgment: you know which actions are safe to automate today, which need an approval gate, and how to tell the difference with evidence
  • You drive AI agents and coding agents (CloudThinker, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as your primary leverage — specify, delegate, review, correct
  • Customer-facing communication: you can walk a CTO through what changed and why in outcome language, in Vietnamese and English
  • Consulting instinct without the consulting distance: you embed, you ship against real systems, and you stay until the number moves
  • Nice to have: FinOps, security/compliance (SOC 2, PCI), or managed-services background; Terraform and IaC depth; incident command experience

What We Offer

  • Be the forward edge of a new discipline — AgenticOps — with the platform team one desk away
  • High ownership, real impact, and minimal bureaucracy
  • Work with a strong technical team solving real customer problems
  • Competitive compensation and flexible working model
  • Long-term growth opportunities
  • Hybrid working

What Success Looks Like

First 90 days

First customer environment onboarded end-to-end: connections established, first runbooks encoded as skills, agents running in notify mode with your supervision.

First 6 months

A portfolio of customer environments with routine operations graduated to act-with-approval or autonomous. First outcome story — cost, MTTR, or toil hours — presented to customer leadership.

First year

Named reference customers running agentic operations you deployed. Your encoded skills reused across accounts. The playbook you wrote is how the next FDE onboards.

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Why Join CloudThinker?

Innovative Work

Work on cutting-edge AI technology that's transforming cloud operations

Flexible Environment

Modern office space in Vinhomes Grand Park with a collaborative work environment

Growth Opportunities

Long-term career development in a creative and empowering environment