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What You Will Do:
• Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and operational management of secure, scalable, and extensible cloud architectures, infrastructure services, data flows, identity management capabilities, recovery processes, and platform operations that support mission and business requirements.
• Implement approved connectivity and cloud choices with reproducible evidence of protection.
• Operate Proxmox services; maintain backups, recovery, identity, and logs diligently and consistently.
• Accept isolation zones for collectors, sanitization, and identity mapping securely.
• Train substitutes; exercise restores; verify protections before exchanges resume reliably.
• Coordinate endpoint and network specialists; retain operational ownership post‑handover effectively.
• Provide GPU server identity and storage path acceptance conditions appropriately.
• Lead traffic‑analysis assessments; report residual exposure candidly to mission leadership.

What You Will Need:
• SIX (6)+ years of relevant experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD “TOP SECRET” security clearance
• Demonstrated experience performing responsibilities directly related to the position.
• Ability to work in complex, multidisciplinary environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience coordinating with senior leaders, technical experts, or operational stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver quality results.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.

What Would Be Nice To Have:
• Master's Degree in a related discipline.
• Experience in intelligence, national security, defense, technology, or private‑sector mission environments.
• Experience developing strategic plans, assessments, technical products, or operational frameworks.
• Experience working across organizations and integrating diverse stakeholder requirements.
• Familiarity with data analytics, AI/ML, knowledge management, or operational planning.
• Experience supporting executive decision‑making and governance processes.
• Experience leading teams, projects, programs, or technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to improve processes, methodologies, and mission outcomes.

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“Can you walk me through a cloud architecture you personally designed and implemented, including networking, identity and access management, security controls, infrastructure provisioning, and production operations? Which components did you build hands-on

“What hands-on experience do you have operating Proxmox or comparable virtualization platforms? How have you implemented backups, tested full restores, and verified that systems could recover securely after a failure?”

Describe a project where you had to isolate sensitive systems or data flows, control identities and access, sanitize information, and verify security protections before allowing data to move between environments. How did you prove the controls were workin

“Tell me about a time you took operational ownership of a complex cloud or infrastructure environment after implementation or handover. How did you coordinate network and endpoint teams, monitor logs, assess traffic exposure, and ensure the environment re

“Are you a U.S. citizen, able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Top Secret clearance, and comfortable supporting a mission environment with strict security and operational requirements? Can you describe how you document residual risks and communicat