# Forward Deployed Engineer at Virtru

- Company: Virtru
- What the company does: Virtru is a data security platform delivering end-to-end encryption and access control for email, files and apps. Trusted by enterprise and defense leaders. Backed by Bessemer, NEA and ICONIQ.
- Company website: https://www.virtru.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Northern Virginia - On-site
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/virtru/jobs/4736188005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/virtru-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Virtru, you will work directly alongside government agencies and defense customers to deploy and operationalize Virtru's data protection solutions across mixed Windows and Linux infrastructures in secure, mission-critical environments.

## What they're looking for

- Active U.S. TS Clearance required, w/ CI poly preferred
- Minimum of 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, etc
- 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, etc

Tags: Customer Solutions & Engineering