Forward Deployed Engineer – Vulnerability Management & Security

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer – Vulnerability Management & Security based in Netherlands.** As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll operate at the intersection of software engineering, cybersecurity, and customer delivery in highly sensitive environments. You’ll lead the deployment and integration of autonomous vulnerability management and security technologies across complex enterprise, government, and defense infrastructures. The role combines hands-on coding with systems engineering, security operations, and direct engagement with technical and senior customer stakeholders. You’ll work with challenging architectures, including air-gapped networks, IT/OT environments, VPCs, Linux systems, and containerized platforms. Your expertise will directly contribute to identifying vulnerabilities, validating remediation, hardening systems, and improving automated security capabilities. You’ll also act as a critical bridge between customer environments and internal engineering and AI teams, turning real-world challenges into product improvements. This is a high-autonomy opportunity for a security-focused engineer who wants to solve complex problems with meaningful impact on cyber resilience and national security. ### Accountabilities: - Lead the technical deployment, configuration, integration, and ongoing optimization of autonomous security and vulnerability management platforms across high-security enterprise, government, and defense environments. - Deploy solutions within sovereign, restricted, and air-gapped networks while adapting implementations to customer-specific infrastructure, security requirements, and operational constraints. - Read, analyze, and modify production code across languages such as Python, Go, Rust, and C/C++ to support vulnerability identification, remediation, patch verification, and security tooling integrations. - Investigate complex security challenges involving memory safety, logic flaws, web and network attack surfaces, and emerging or zero-day vulnerabilities. - Integrate security capabilities into complex IT/OT, VPC, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, authentication, and cross-domain environments. - Work directly with customer engineering teams, security operations centers, system administrators, and operational leadership to troubleshoot issues and deliver effective technical solutions. - Navigate stringent security, compliance, authentication, networking, and operational requirements while maintaining execution speed and deployment quality. - Establish trusted technical relationships with customers and serve as a subject matter expert in vulnerability management, automated remediation, and cyber defense. - Capture operational edge cases and customer feedback from field deployments and translate them into actionable requirements for internal Engineering and AI teams. - Contribute to improving core platform capabilities by identifying recurring deployment challenges, technical gaps, and opportunities for automation. - Take end-to-end ownership of technical outcomes in high-stakes environments, balancing security rigor, customer requirements, and practical execution. ## Requirements: - Active **UK SC/DV, EU Secret, NATO Secret, or equivalent national security clearance**. - Strong professional experience as a Security Engineer, Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, or similar technical role with substantial hands-on security responsibilities. - Ability to read, write, debug, and modify production-quality code in one or more languages such as **Python, Go, Rust, or C/C++**. - Deep understanding of core vulnerability classes, including memory safety issues, logic flaws, web and network attack surfaces, and zero-day vulnerability dynamics. - Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, vulnerability management, remediation, security hardening, and automated defense. - Comfortable working with complex enterprise architectures, including **Linux, IT/OT environments, VPCs, Docker, Kubernetes, and air-gapped networks**. - Experience integrating software or security platforms into complex customer environments with strict operational, security, and compliance constraints. - Excellent customer-facing communication skills, with the ability to explain sophisticated technical concepts clearly to both senior decision-makers and hands-on technical teams. - Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving abilities, with the ability to investigate unfamiliar environments and develop pragmatic technical solutions. - High level of autonomy, ownership, and adaptability when operating in fast-moving and high-pressure environments. - Strong collaboration skills and the ability to act as an effective bridge between customers and internal engineering, security, and AI teams. - Genuine interest in national security, sovereign cyber defense, cybersecurity innovation, and technologies that help protect critical infrastructure and democratic societies. - Comfortable working with distributed teams across Europe and North America and traveling to customer environments when required. ## Benefits: - Opportunity to work at the intersection of **AI, cybersecurity, automation, and enterprise resilience**. - High-impact work focused on protecting sensitive organizations, critical infrastructure, and democratic societies from sophisticated cyber threats. - High-autonomy environment with significant ownership over customer deployments and technical outcomes. - Opportunity to collaborate with highly experienced professionals across AI, software engineering, and cybersecurity. - Exposure to technically challenging environments, including high-security, sovereign, and air-gapped infrastructures. - Opportunity to influence the evolution of security products by bringing real-world customer challenges directly to engineering and AI teams. - Fast-moving, talent-dense environment with a strong emphasis on ownership, velocity, and low-ego collaboration. - Remote working opportunity within Europe, with the role focused on European customer environments. - Meaningful opportunity to develop expertise across vulnerability management, autonomous remediation, distributed systems, and advanced security technologies.