Infrastructure Lead, DoD / DoW

Armada is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to own day-to-day Department of Defense (DoD)/Department of War (DoW) infrastructure workstreams and to serve as a primary technical voice on federal capture. This is a senior individual contributor role. The role is split evenly between capture and delivery. On the capture side, you engage defense and government customers, shape technical responses to RFIs and RFPs, and translate mission and installation requirements into solution architectures Armada can actually build and field. On the delivery side, you drive Statement of Work (SOW) execution from award through site readiness, production, deployment, integration, and handover with accountability for schedule, technical performance, risk, and change control.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day execution of assigned DoD/DoW infrastructure workstreams; Establish operating rhythms, KPIs, risk registers, and accountability mechanisms; Translate mission requirements into scalable product and deployment patterns; Balance classified and unclassified customer needs while protecting a unified core product architecture; Lead technical engagement on DoD/DoW RFIs, RFPs, and similar proposals; Shape technical volumes, compliance matrices, bases of estimate, and solution narratives; Conduct customer technical exchanges, site surveys, and capability briefings; Advise capture and go-to-market teams on what Armada can commit to; Represent Armada as a trusted technical advisor; Own SOW execution on awarded infrastructure efforts; Build and run the delivery cadence; Partner with Finance, Legal, and Supply Chain on contract execution; Drive integrated plans across engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and field deployment; Proactively surface execution risk, long-lead constraints, and critical-path slips; Own the infrastructure thread from site due diligence through fabrication, transport, installation, integration, and commissioning; Build repeatable deployment playbooks and methods of procedure; Coordinate civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, ICT, and IT interfaces; Feed field lessons back into product design and future proposals; Partner with Security and Compliance on DoD security requirements; Guide infrastructure and accreditation features; Drive secure edge-to-cloud and disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DIL) operating concepts; Ensure delivery artifacts meet mission-assurance expectations

Requirements

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

Nice to have

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

Benefits

Competitive base salary and equity; Medical, dental, and vision (subsidized); HSA, FSA, and dependent-care FSA; 401(k) and Roth 401(k); Unlimited PTO; 14 paid company holidays