Forward Deployed Engineer (Cloud)

Job Description Superlinear's mission is to strengthen the Belgian and European economy, with the ambition to improve EU GDP by 1%. Enterprises today must do more to remain competitive, yet are forced to do so with less: talent, energy, and physical space are all becoming scarcer. The answer is Enterprise Orchestration: coordinating all decisions and activities across a company's value chain to eliminate the systemic inefficiencies that departmentalisation and rigid business rules create. To make this real, we are building Holon, an Enterprise Orchestration Platform. The economic opportunity is massive, but it is bottlenecked by the sheer complexity of orchestrating at enterprise scale. That's why we are pushing the boundaries of what's technically possible, researching new technologies to significantly expand the scale and scope of the orchestration challenges we can solve. We have early traction with some of Europe's largest industrial enterprises. Now we need engineers who can make those deployments reliable, repeatable, and scalable in the environments that matter most. That's why we're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer with a focus on Cloud and DevOps. The role As a Forward Deployed Engineer (Cloud / DevOps), you take end-to-end ownership of cloud and deployment reliability across client missions. You remain hands-on, while also coordinating solutions at a broader technical level and setting standards that others follow. You ensure that deployments are repeatable, observable, secure, and scalable, and you help the team continuously improve how infrastructure and operations are handled across clients. What You'll Build Cloud architecture and deployment strategy Design and evolve cloud-agnostic deployment patterns for Holon, our Enterprise Orchestration PlatformCoordinate infrastructure solutions across client environmentsMake architectural trade-offs balancing reliability, security, and speedPromote consistency and reuse across deployments CI/CD, automation and reliability Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and release processesIdentify and reduce operational risk through automation and better toolingDefine and promote best practices for observability, monitoring, and alertingLead incident analysis and contribute to structural reliability improvements Technical leadership and quality Promote high code and infrastructure quality through reviews and standardsIdentify and plan resolution of technical debt in infrastructure and toolingMentor other FDEs in DevOps and cloud best practicesHelp others use AI and automation to work more effectively Collaboration and feedback Work closely with Deployment Leads, Product Engineers, and client IT teamsClearly explain infrastructure decisions and trade-offs to non-specialistsFeed deployment learnings back into the Product team and Superlinear PlaybookActively contribute to a constructive, ownership-driven team culture Job Requirements Essential experience 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineeringProven experience owning production systems in complex environmentsStrong background in cloud-agnostic architectures and automationExperience supporting or mentoring other engineers Technical Skills That Matter Deep understanding of cloud platforms and infrastructure designStrong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, containers, and CI/CDSolid grasp of security, networking, and observability principlesAbility to reason at both system and implementation levelHands-on with our cloud and infrastructure stack: Azure (Container Apps and Container Apps Jobs), Terraform, and OpenTelemetry for observability, alongside Postgres, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Blob Storage. Equivalent experience counts too (e.g. AWS, Pulumi, AWS SQS/S3). Mindset & approach Ownership-driven: you take responsibility for systems, not just tasksPragmatic: focused on reliability and impact, not over-engineeringClear communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholdersMotivated by improving how teams build and operate systems Why this role matters As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Cloud / DevOps), your work directly determines how reliably Holon runs in the environments that matter most. You help turn one-off deployments into scalable, repeatable foundations, and help others grow along the way. What We Offer Impact: Work on infrastructure and deployment systems that run at the heart of Europe's most critical enterprisesOwnership: A senior individual-contributor role with real responsibility and a strong voice in technical and architectural decisionsGrowth: Room to deepen your expertise, define standards, and grow toward Staff-level impactCollaboration: Work closely with experienced engineers and client IT teams in our Brussels office (next to Central Station)Compensation: Competitive salary aligned with senior-level responsibilityBenefits: Comprehensive health insurance, group insurance, meal and eco vouchers, full transportation coverage, internet allowance, and additional Superlinear holidaysTools: MacBook Pro, and modern AI, cloud and DevOps toolingCulture: A team driven by ownership, meritocracy, and integrity