VP, Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Platform Engineering organization from the ground up: hiring managers, setting technical direction, and scaling a team to 24+ in 2026 with significant continued growth as the company expands its program portfolio and prime capabilities
• Own the company’s compute infrastructure platform strategy across commercial, CUI, and classified environments, including cloud, containers, networking, and CI/CD
• Define and deliver the technical architecture for DoD Impact Level 5 and IL-6 accredited compute environments, replacing subcontractor dependency with a reusable, internally owned platform
• Drive AI enablement infrastructure as the company’s top strategic priority, including the AI platform, data infrastructure, and enterprise AI tooling that the rest of the company depends on
• Lead the Systems Working Group: technology evaluation, approval, and standardization across the company, backed by the engineering capacity to drive outcomes
• Partner with engineering leadership, program teams, and government customers to ensure infrastructure scales with the contract pipeline and positions True Anomaly to offer accredited compute as a prime capability

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering, with 5+ years leading engineering organizations of 15+ people across multiple technical disciplines
• Hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GovCloud variants), Kubernetes, container orchestration, networking, and CI/CD at scale
• Direct experience building and operating DoD Impact Level 5 or higher accredited environments, with working knowledge of NIST 800-53, STIGs, RMF, and the ATO process
• Track record of building engineering organizations from scratch in high-growth environments: recruiting teams, establishing culture, and delivering platforms that other teams depend on
• Experience managing teams that operate across classification levels with mixed clearance requirements
• Strong executive communication skills and the ability to represent infrastructure strategy to government customers, program leadership, and C-suite stakeholders

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in aerospace, defense, or national security technology companies
• Background spanning multiple infrastructure disciplines: AI/ML platforms, data engineering, networking, and SRE/DevOps
• Experience with multi-cloud and hybrid architectures including on-premises, GovCloud, and customer-deployed or disconnected environments
• Prior experience at a high-growth startup (Series B through IPO) building infrastructure that scales with rapid headcount and contract growth
• Familiarity with platform engineering “paved roads” operating models that balance standardization with engineering team autonomy
• Active U.S. Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance