Senior Principal Mission Engineer

The role

You will deploy, manage, update, and optimize platform environments within a classified cloud. You will also provide technical consultation and training to mission users.

What you will do

• Manage and monitor the platform’s cloud-native services, compute instances, virtual networks, and identity policies inside the secure cloud enclave.
• Troubleshoot and maintain localized Kubernetes clusters.
• Coordinate and execute complex software and platform updates within air-gapped or restricted-connectivity cloud environments.
• Isolate and resolve cloud-specific connectivity issues, routing failures, IAM permission deadlocks, and API rate-limiting blocks.
• Serve as the on-site cloud subject matter expert.
• Provide hands-on training, workshops, and documentation to site application developers.

Required qualifications

• Active Top Secret / SCI
• 5+ years of systems engineering experience
• 2-3 years specifically focused on architecture and operations within government or classified cloud regions (AWS GovCloud/Secret/Top Secret or Azure Government/Secret)
• 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/policies, and cross-domain solution paths
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience defending technical designs to government representatives and training technical end-users

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience managing incident response lifecycles and resolving critical control-plane or etcd failures within live, high-scale production systems
• Advanced capability in utilizing telemetry, API server audit logs, distributed tracing, and metrics to perform root-cause analysis

Benefits

• performance-based bonuses
• medical coverage
• dental coverage
• vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with company match
• substantial paid time off
• holidays
• flexible work arrangements where possible
• income protection benefits

About the company

Clarity Innovations is a national security partner delivering solutions to the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). Their mission-first platform modernizes data operations using advanced workflows and secure DevSecOps practices.