Sr. Principal Mission Engineer
Clarity Innovations3 months ago
Columbia, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$100k - $330k/yr
Responsibilities
- Manage and monitor cloud-native services, compute instances, virtual networks, and identity policies within secure classified cloud enclaves.
- Troubleshoot and maintain Kubernetes clusters and their integration with API gateways, Cilium network fabrics, and local container registries.
- Coordinate and execute software and platform updates in air-gapped or restricted-connectivity environments.
- Diagnose and resolve connectivity, routing, IAM permission, and API rate-limiting issues.
- Act as the on-site cloud subject matter expert and technical liaison for government customers.
- Provide hands-on training, workshops, and documentation for application developers onboarding workloads.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
- At least 5 years of systems engineering experience, including 2–3 years focused on architecture and operations in government or classified cloud regions.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture, cluster operations, and debugging cloud-native application stacks.
- Practical knowledge of cloud routing, secure API gateways, security groups, IAM roles and policies, and cross-domain solution paths.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including experience defending technical designs to government representatives and training technical users.
- Preferred: hands-on live-production incident response and experience resolving critical control-plane or etcd failures.
- Preferred: advanced use of telemetry, API server audit logs, distributed tracing, and metrics for production root-cause analysis.
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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.