On-Site Senior Mission Engineer - Proxmox & Secure Infra

Clarity Innovations; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Clarity Innovations in Columbia, MD is seeking an on-site, cleared Senior Principal Mission Engineer to lead the deployment and maintenance of a secure, multi-tenant control plane across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments. You will manage Proxmox-based infrastructure, troubleshoot low-level virtualization issues, and engage directly with government stakeholders.

The role requires independent work, a track record of delivering complex projects end-to-end, and strong training and customer-facing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing enterprise Linux environments and bare-metal hardware infrastructure in secure environments.
• Strong, demonstrable experience configuring and troubleshooting Proxmox VE, KVM, QEMU, or equivalent virtualization technologies.
• Practical experience with Ceph storage orchestration, software-defined networking, VLAN tagging, and low-level Linux networking.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a proven track record of managing technical relationships and training for government or military personnel.

Responsibilities

• System Management & Virtualization Tuning: Maintain, update, and optimize the on-site Proxmox VE hypervisor environments, Ceph clusters, and server hardware.
• Troubleshooting & Incident Resolution: Diagnose and resolve hardware failures, kernel panics, network partitions, and Kubernetes issues in the isolated space.
• Integration & Deployment: Deploy automated updates, patch air-gapped systems, and integrate new compute/storage nodes into the local cluster.
• Customer Engagement & Advisory: Serve as the on-site technical representative for program stakeholders and local admins.
• On-Site Training: Conduct technical walkthroughs, operational training, and compliance briefings for customer personnel.
• Security & Configuration Control: Work with ISSO/ISSM to enforce security benchmarks and support configuration reviews.

Skills

Linux administration

Customer-facing

Enterprise Linux

Tools

Proxmox VE

KVM

QEMU

Ceph

VMware vSphere/OpenStack

Job description

Clarity Innovations in Columbia, MD is seeking an on-site, cleared Senior Principal Mission Engineer to lead the deployment and maintenance of a secure, multi-tenant control plane across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments. You will manage Proxmox-based infrastructure, troubleshoot low-level virtualization issues, and engage directly with government stakeholders.

The role requires independent work, a track record of delivering complex projects end-to-end, and strong training and customer-facing