Infrastructure Lead, DoD / DoW

• Own day-to-day execution of assigned 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. 

• U.S. citizenship and an active U.S. Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain and maintain the clearance required by assigned programs. 
• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, data center, critical facilities, hardware program, or technical program roles. 
• 5+ years supporting U.S. Government or Defense customers (DoD/DoW, Intelligence Community, or federal civilian agencies), 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. 
• Ability to translate defense customer problems into specific, actionable requirements and into commitments engineering and manufacturing can execute. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical, operational, contracting, and senior government audiences. 

• Active TS/SCI clearance. 
• Direct experience with modular or prefabricated data centers, edge compute, or expeditionary infrastructure in defense, intelligence, or austere environments. 
• Experience with DoD acquisition and contracting artifacts: SOW, CDRL/SDRL, RFI/RFP technical volumes, bases of estimate, and integrated master schedules. 
• Familiarity with RMF, ATO, ICD 503, NIST 800-53, zero trust, IL4/IL5/IL6, or classified deployment models. 
• Experience with disconnected, intermittent, and limited operations, sovereign or air-gapped AI infrastructure, or installation energy and power constraints. 
• Prior military, intelligence, or government service, or experience as a program manager, TPM, capture lead, or customer engineer on a defense hardware program. 

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