DoD Edge Infrastructure Lead — Secure Deployments

Armada; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Armada is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to own day-to-day DoD/DoW infrastructure workstreams and serve as the primary technical voice on federal capture. This senior individual contributor role involves shaping architectures across Galleon, Leviathan, and the Armada Platform, with hands-on delivery from award through site readiness.

You will engage defense customers, translate mission requirements into scalable deployment patterns, and ensure secure, compliant, and manufacturable solutions

Qualifications

• 12+ years in infrastructure, data center, critical facilities, hardware program, or technical program roles.
• 5+ years supporting U.S. Government or Defense customers, including direct customer engagement.
• Demonstrated ownership of technical RFI/RFP responses, proposals, or customer technical evaluations for infrastructure, data center, or mission-critical systems.
• Demonstrated SOW or contract execution experience: integrated schedule, risk and change control, and delivery against government acceptance criteria.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical, operational, contracting, and senior government audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own DoD/DoW infrastructure workstreams from early customer engagement through deployment and sustainment.
• Establish operating rhythms, KPIs, risk registers, and accountability mechanisms so federal infrastructure delivery is predictable, not reactive.
• Translate mission requirements into scalable product and deployment patterns.
• Balance classified and unclassified customer needs while protecting a unified core product architecture across Galleon, Leviathan, and the Armada Platform.
• Lead technical engagement on DoD/DoW RFIs, RFPs, and similar proposals for infrastructure and edge-compute opportunities.
• Shape technical volumes, compliance matrices, bases of estimate, and solution narratives with Capture, Federal Product, Customer Engineering, and Legal.
• Conduct customer technical exchanges, site surveys, and capability briefings. Translate warfighter, installation, and program-office problems into specific, actionable requirements.
• Advise capture and go-to-market teams on what Armada can commit to: form factor, power and cooling envelope, deployment timeline, accreditation path, and manufacturing readiness.
• Represent Armada as a trusted technical advisor to government technical evaluators, program managers, and mission owners.
• Own SOW execution on awarded infrastructure efforts: scope, integrated schedule, technical performance, risk, issue, and change control.
• Build and run the delivery cadence to include program reviews, working groups, customer status, and internal execution forums.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, and Supply Chain on contract execution, delivery commitments, CLIN/SLIN traceability, and change management.
• Drive integrated plans across engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and field deployment so cost, schedule, and technical performance stay in balance as customer priorities move.
• Proactively surface execution risk, long-lead constraints, and critical-path slips, and drive mitigation rather than report them.
• Support transition from capture assumptions to an executable baseline at award, including site conditions, interface control, and acceptance criteria.
• Own the infrastructure thread from site due diligence and design review through fabrication, transport, installation, integration, and commissioning for Galleon and Leviathan deployments in defense environments.
• Partner with Form Factors, manufacturing, and supply chain on production readiness: factory strategy, throughput, quality, and long-lead items such as power, cooling, steel, switchgear, and IT infrastructure.
• Validate that proposed designs are manufacturable, transportable, and installable against real site constraints — crane and access, laydown, sequencing, tolerances, and fit-up — before they are locked into a proposal or an issued-for-construction package.
• Build repeatable deployment playbooks and methods of procedure so defense sites execute against a productized pattern, not a one-off plan.
• Coordinate civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, ICT, and IT interfaces with fabricators, general contractors, and government public-works stakeholders.
• Feed field lessons — constructability, quality escapes, commissioning gaps — back into product design and future proposals.
• Partner with Security and Compliance on DoD security requirements, NIST, RMF, zero trust, and classified or air-gapped deployment models.
• Guide the infrastructure and accreditation features needed to support Authority to Operate and government compliance and keep proposal language consistent with what the platform can evidence.
• Drive secure edge-to-cloud and disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DIL) operating concepts for defense customers who cannot rely on centralized cloud.
• Ensure delivery artifacts including as-builts, test and acceptance packages, configuration baselines, and sustainment handoff meet mission-assurance expectations.

Skills

DoD/DoW infrastructure

RFIs/RFPs engagement

SOW execution

Delivery leadership

Hardware coordination

Security/compliance

Job description

Armada is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to own day-to-day DoD/DoW infrastructure workstreams and serve as the primary technical voice on federal capture. This senior individual contributor role involves shaping architectures across Galleon, Leviathan, and the Armada Platform, with hands-on delivery from award through site readiness.

You will engage defense customers, translate mission requirements into scalable deployment patterns, and ensure secure, compliant, and manufacturable solutions