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As a Platform Engineer, you will automate production environments, validate implementations, problem-solve independently, and facilitate communication between teams.

As a Proposal Manager, you will lead the proposal process for federal contracts, collaborate with teams, and manage proposal timelines. Your role is pivotal in supporting national defense by delivering compliant, high-quality proposals that align with U.S. Department of Defense needs.

Forward-deployed senior data engineer who deploys, hardens, integrates, and operates a data platform (lakehouse, streaming, governance) in DoD environments. Build pipelines across classification boundaries, produce accreditation evidence (STIG/cATO/FIPS), run day-2 operations, train mission teams, and mentor junior FDEs while feeding field feedback into product improvements.

Design and build cloud-native ETL/ELT pipelines and microservices, modernize on-prem systems to distributed services, implement authentication/authorization and data governance, ensure data quality and observability, drive architecture and CI/CD best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders across a US Navy-focused defense program.

Build and maintain cloud-native platform infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters, develop IaC and CI/CD pipelines, support IAM and monitoring, manage certificates and container security, participate in on-call incident response, and document runbooks and standards while mentoring junior engineers.

Lead customer retention, adoption, and account expansion for autonomous and unmanned systems in the federal sector. Drive onboarding, time-to-value, product adoption, cross-selling, and collaborative product feedback. Track KPIs, run QBRs and retrospectives, and balance early TTV with long-term profitability to grow the domain and maintain high hero satisfaction and low churn.

Develop, deploy, and maintain the UDS Registry and related tools (Pepr, Lula). Lead architecture and implementation, integrate with defense systems, participate in on-call rotation, contribute to open source, produce documentation, mentor engineers, and influence product direction with user-focused design.

Customer-facing senior Solutions Architect leading and mentoring engineers to design and deliver cloud-native, secure CI/CD solutions. Own POCs and packaging (Zarf/UDS), build CI/CD pipelines, deploy and troubleshoot containers and Helm/Kustomize artifacts across AWS/GCP/Azure, and drive process improvements and enablement for Defense customers.

Build data-rich, operational UIs for managing individual assets and fleets of autonomous and unmanned systems in distributed, bandwidth-constrained environments. Integrate frontends with backend APIs and platform services, handle complex asynchronous state, apply secure cloud-native deployment practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-focused software.

Lead design, implementation, and deployment of core platform tooling enabling secure, cloud-native application delivery. Integrate with defense systems, own architecture, mentor engineers, contribute to open source, maintain documentation, and participate in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation.