Cohere

Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Middle East)

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2 months ago
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia or Dubai, United Arab EmiratesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end North deployments in private cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing, and rollout.
  • Partner with enterprise IT teams to assess infrastructure, security requirements, and data-management practices.
  • Design and implement deployment strategies tailored to customer needs and data privacy and security standards.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve deployment-related technical issues to minimize downtime.
  • Engage directly with customers and deliver solutions that exceed their expectations.
  • Travel to customer premises 20–40% of the time.

Requirements

  • Experience working directly with customers.
  • Experience deploying enterprise software in private or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Proven experience administering large-scale production Kubernetes clusters and expertise with Helm.
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Git for version control.
  • Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, and virtualization, including Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments with changing priorities.
  • Fluency in Arabic and English.
  • Bonus: familiarity with GPU node orchestration and scheduling, and with GPU infrastructure, inference systems, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and performance optimization.

Benefits

  • Lunch stipend, full health and dental benefits, mental-health budget, retirement matching or pension options, and parental leave top-up.
  • Annual enrichment benefits, education and learning stipend, six weeks of paid vacation, and an annual company offsite.
  • Remote-friendly work arrangement with offices, coworking benefits, a home-office stipend, and travel support for remote employees.

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About Cohere

1,001-5,000 employees

Cohere builds large language models and an enterprise AI platform that companies use for search, summarization, and workflow automation, delivered via API or private deployments. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto, it focuses on multilingual models, data controls, and options to run across major clouds or on-premises. The business is privately held and serves security- and compliance-sensitive organizations.

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