Platform Site Lead - Forward Deployed Engineer
Clarity Innovations23 days ago
Annapolis Junction, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$120k - $352k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the customer-site lead and represent Clarity while leading a multifunctional technical team.
- Perform Linux systems and CLI troubleshooting and maintain infrastructure stability during cyber operations.
- Develop systems in Go and Python and automate infrastructure using Terraform and HCL.
- Build and deploy Docker containers and support CI/CD workflows with GitLab.
- Integrate identity management using Authentik and debug TCP/IP networking, routing, WireGuard, and packet traffic.
- Deploy emerging AI/LLM tooling into operational workflows.
- Provide technical leadership, establish practices and standards, develop workforce capabilities, and contribute as an individual technical expert.
- Support capability improvements and technical strategies aligned with mission needs.
Requirements
- Typically requires a university degree such as a BA/BS or equivalent experience.
- Requires a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
- Requires Linux systems and CLI troubleshooting experience.
- Requires Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and HCL.
- Requires Go and Python systems development experience.
- Requires networking and packet analysis experience, including TCP/IP, routing, and WireGuard.
- Requires containerization and CI/CD experience with Docker and GitLab.
- Preferred qualifications include technical team management and security engineering fundamentals such as PKI, X.509 certificates, least privilege, and threat modeling.
- Preferred qualifications include reverse engineering or vulnerability research using debuggers, disassemblers, and binary tracing.
- Preferred qualifications include Kubernetes cluster deployment, pod networking, distributed-system resilience, and automated testing harness development.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonuses, medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off, holidays, flexible work arrangements where possible, and income protection benefits.
- The position may be performed in multiple locations, with the actual salary and applicable contract requirements varying by location.
About Clarity Innovations
Clarity Innovations builds and deploys custom software, data analytics platforms, and cloud solutions for U.S. government customers, especially the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Its teams provide DevSecOps, systems architecture, rapid prototyping, and UX/UI services to modernize mission systems and workflows. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, it is privately held and operates as part of Chameleon Consulting Group.