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# Director, Platforms & Infrastructure - Autonomous Mission In

- **Company:** Tyto Athene
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Computer Networks, Data Transport Utility, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Information Technology Operations, Zero Trust Network Access, Systems Integration, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Machine Learning Operations, Open Network Automation Platform
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9073342/director-platforms-amp-infrastructure-autonomous-mission-in

## About the Role

What You Bring (Required):

 * The Blueprint: 12+ years building and operating large-scale enterprise infrastructure, with a significant "tour of duty" (5+ years) in DoD, IC, or Federal mission environments. You have shipped infrastructure into production at the scale, complexity, and accreditation level the federal mission demands.
 * The Scars: 8+ years of hands-on platform engineering experience across at least two of the following: cloud and hybrid cloud architecture, network automation and SDN, Kubernetes and container orchestration, ITSM and IT operations at scale, data transport and resilient communications. You have led architecture, implementation, and operations - not just slideware.
 * The Agentic Edge: 3+ years of leadership experience integrating AI and agentic automation into infrastructure operations - autonomous incident response, AI-driven capacity management, agent-based change automation, MLOps for cleared environments, or comparable. You understand the difference between AI-washed runbooks and genuinely autonomous infrastructure, and have shipped the latter.
 * The Cleared Pedigree: 5+ years operating in IL5/IL6 environments with deep fluency in cleared cloud (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government), accreditation workflows, and the realities of multi-classification operations. You know what it takes to get a system from prototype to ATO.
 * The Standards: Deep fluency in NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, the CISA/DoD Zero Trust Reference Architectures, and the post-quantum cryptographic transition timeline. You can speak to NSM-10 and CNSA 2.0 implications for federal infrastructure without referring to notes.
 * The Builder Mindset: You build teams that ship. You have hired, developed, and retained senior platform engineers in a competitive market. You know how to balance internal capability development with strategic vendor partnerships.

## Description

* Platform Visionary: You aren't just aware that "platform engineering" and "agentic ops" are converging - you have an operationalized point of view on how, when, and why. Conference talks, public technical writing, named architectural patterns to your credit.
 * Clearance: Active TS/SCI required for primary role function. SECRET-cleared candidates with clearable backgrounds considered with active sponsorship.
 * The Federation Gateway Mindset: You have built or operated systems that span classification boundaries, hyperscaler boundaries, or partner-federation boundaries. You understand that the hardest infrastructure problems live at the seams.
 * The Quantum-Aware Architect: You have begun engineering cryptographic agility into infrastructure before procurement deadlines forced it. You understand why September 2026 FIPS 140-2 sunset and the Pentagon PQC migration memo matter for every system you ship.
 * The Lab Rat: You still enjoy diving into lab environments - building reference implementations, validating vendor claims, breaking things to understand them. You haven't lost the engineer underneath the leader.


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