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# Sr. Principal Platform Engineer at Clarity Innovations

- **Company:** Clarity Innovations
- **Location:** Springfield, VA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clarityinnovates/jobs/5235627007

## Job description

Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.

Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.

We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.

Role Description:

The Cloud Architect will design and guide the cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting the team's AI platform and DAG mission capabilities. The Architect will ensure that the technical environment is scalable, resilient, secure, cost-effective, and compatible with the sponsor's enterprise architecture and operating environment.

The role will work closely with the AI/ML Architect to ensure AI workloads can be efficiently deployed and scaled, with the Platform Engineer to operationalize infrastructure through automation, and with the Security Engineer to satisfy classified-environment security requirements. The Cloud Architect will evaluate COTS/FOSS and government enterprise services and establish reusable infrastructure patterns that support continuous delivery.

Technical Skills:

- Cloud architecture
- AWS, Azure, and/or other government cloud environments
- Kubernetes
- Containerized architectures
- Cloud-native application architecture
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Networking
- VPC/VNet architecture
- Identity and access management
- Storage architectures
- Compute architecture
- High availability
- Disaster recovery
- Scalability and performance engineering
- Cloud security
- Zero Trust architectures
- Infrastructure automation
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Cloud cost optimization/FinOps
- Hybrid cloud
- On-premises/cloud integration
- COTS/FOSS evaluation

Salary Range: $144,000 - $324,000

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

## About Clarity Innovations

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clarity Innovations is a mission-first software and data engineering platform that delivers secure, agile solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and federal agencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Chameleon Consulting Group in June 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Columbia, Maryland, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Wesley Daniels (President, Strategic Initiatives)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: National security, defense, cybersecurity, software and data engineering
- **Target customers**: U.S. DoD, IC, federal agencies (B2G)
- **Mission**: To protect and defend our nation by deploying capabilities rapidly and maximizing mission impact; solving diverse, complex intelligence challenges; and turning data into actionable, real-time cyber intelligence.

## Products & Services
Clarity organizes its work around eight specialized **Communities of Practice** focused on three main pillars:

- **Empower Data** – Making data effective for end users and consumable by Non-Person Entities (NPEs); data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML pipelines.
- **Achieve Cyber Dominance** – Enabling cyberspace operations as a viable alternative to kinetic weapons; offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and security engineering.
- **Transform Systems** – Modern solutions architecture, DevSecOps, platform engineering, software engineering, human-centered design, and agile delivery to connect users to the information they need.

Each area includes services such as software development, data engineering, platform engineering, cybersecurity, UX design, product management, and program management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: ~$3.6M (per third-party data; likely understated for a government contractor of 382 employees).
  - **Total Funding**: $11.7M (led by Capitol Meridian Partners, December 2023).
- **Notable Investors / Partners**:
  - **Capitol Meridian Partners** (lead investor in $11.7M PE round)
  - Parent company: **Chameleon Consulting Group** (acquired Clarity in June 2024)
  - Member of the **Digital Services Coalition (DSC)**
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+26.7% year-over-year** (382 employees as of mid-2026).
  - 5 offices across the U.S.; presence in the UK, Germany, Canada, and India.
  - Active hiring across cybersecurity, platform engineering, data science, software engineering, and more (25+ open roles on Greenhouse as of July 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Mission focus**: Clarity is deeply embedded in national security and defense, with a stated commitment to "enabling the future of warfare."
- **Badgeless culture**: Collaboration with other defense contractors and agencies based on ideas and talent, not logos.
- **Digital Services Coalition membership**: Provides strong ties to like-minded, agile digital transformation firms.
- **High employee satisfaction**: 4.7/5.0 employer rating on LinkedIn (based on 64 reviews), with top scores for work-life balance (4.8) and culture (4.7).
- **Security & compliance expertise**: Demonstrated track record with DoD, IC, and federal clients, including cyber, data, and systems transformation.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to support the DoD, IC, and federal agencies with rapid, mission-critical software and data solutions.
- Expand capabilities in cyber dominance, data engineering, and platform modernization.
- Leverage the backing of Chameleon Consulting Group to scale and pursue larger contracts.
- Emphasize human-centered design and DevSecOps to deliver secure, user-friendly products.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "family as much as a team" with a focus on servant leadership, mutual respect, and innovation. High employee ratings for culture (4.7) and career development (4.3).
- **Flexibility**: Remote work options available; roles can be fully remote, hybrid, or on-site at locations like Herndon, VA; Columbia, MD; Ft. Meade, MD; and others.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision; 401(k); generous PTO/holidays; pet insurance; DashPass; wellness programs; LinkedIn Learning accounts; continuous education support.
- **Meaningful work**: Employees directly contribute to national security and defense technology, working on challenging projects that "push the boundaries of technology."

## Sources
1. [Clarity Innovations Website - Home](https://clarityinnovates.com/)
2. [Clarity Innovations - About Us](https://clarityinnovates.com/about-us/)
3. [Clarity Innovations - Careers](https://clarityinnovates.com/careers/)
4. [Jobs at Clarity Innovations (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clarityinnovates)
5. [Clarity Innovations LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clarityinnovations)

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