Senior Mission Success Engineer, US Federal

The role

The Senior Mission Success Engineer leads deployment execution and provides long-term technical ownership for federal programs. This person manages platform bring-up, security hardening, and mission success within FedRAMP-authorized and classified environments.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end deployment of Armada platforms
• Execute deployments within classified facilities and FedRAMP-regulated environments
• Own infrastructure bring-up, platform configuration, security hardening, and production readiness validation
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned federal programs post go-live
• Build, maintain, and actively drive Joint Success Plans for each assigned customer
• Partner with customer security and compliance teams on ATO, continuous monitoring, and audit readiness
• Support transitions from prototype or pilot environments into sustained production deployments
• Mentor junior cleared FDEs, CSEs, and delivery engineers
• Provide structured field feedback to influence the federal product and delivery roadmap

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, forward-deployed engineering, or technical delivery roles in US Federal environments
• Active or Prior TS/SCI clearance required
• Demonstrated experience supporting FedRAMP-authorized platforms, including ATO and continuous monitoring
• Strong technical foundation in AI infrastructure, edge compute, data center systems, cloud platforms, and GPU-accelerated workloads
• Proven ability to own both hands-on delivery and long-term program-level technical relationships
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in classified and executive settings
• Must be willing to travel to Hawaii regularly

Nice to have

• Full Scope Polygraph
• Direct experience with FedRAMP Moderate or High environments
• Background supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, or federal civilian agencies
• Experience operating in disconnected, denied, or austere environments
• Experience scaling AI or compute platforms from prototype to mission-critical production

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision (subsidized cost)
• Health savings accounts (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), and dependent care FSAs (DCFSA)
• Retirement plan options, including 401(k) and Roth 401(k)
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• 15 paid company holidays per year
• Equity

About the company

Armada is the hyperscaler for the edge, delivering modular AI infrastructure from first deployment to AI factory. The company builds the infrastructure layer for sovereign and edge AI using rugged, deployable compute.