Sr. Principal Mission Engineer
Clarityinnovates · Columbia, MD
About this role
## Clarity Innovations — Senior Principal Mission Engineer (K8s & Cloud) Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner dedicated to safeguarding national interests and delivering innovative solutions for the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). We modernize data operations with mission-first software and data engineering—using advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps—to transform data into actionable intelligence. ### Position Overview This is an **on-site, cleared** Senior Principal Mission Engineer role supporting a team of software and platform engineers building a **unified, multi-tenant control plane**. The platform abstracts infrastructure differences across **AWS, Azure, and on-premises**, enabling application teams to provision **secure, isolated Kubernetes clusters and workloads dynamically**. The control plane runs **Crossplane** and **Cluster API (CAPI)**. As the **primary on-site engineer**, you will be responsible for **deploying, managing, updating, and optimizing** platform environments within a **classified cloud** (e.g., **AWS Top Secret Region**). You will ensure seamless operation of cloud capabilities, Kubernetes clusters, and **API gateway architectures**. You will handle localized cloud infrastructure troubleshooting, deploy secure software updates, and provide direct technical consultation and training to mission users—bridging the gap between the remote engineering pipeline and the isolated, classified cloud environment. ### Key Responsibilities - **Classified Cloud Management:** Manage and monitor cloud-native services, compute instances, virtual networks (VPCs/VNets), and identity policies inside the secure cloud enclave. - **Kubernetes & Workload Integration:** Troubleshoot and maintain localized Kubernetes clusters (managed or CAPI-provisioned), ensuring proper integration with ingress API gateways, **Cilium** network fabrics, and local container registries. - **Updates & Software Delivery:** Coordinate and execute complex software and platform updates within **air-gapped or restricted-connectivity** environments. ### What You’ll Bring The ideal candidate is **highly independent**, able to drive projects from inception to completion with minimal supervision.
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