--- title: 'Technical Account Manager II - FedRAMP at Knox Systems' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-account-manager-ii-fedramp-knox-systems-washington-4svx8ab9m0vk' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Technical Account Manager II - FedRAMP at Knox Systems - **Company:** Knox Systems - **Location:** Washington, DC - **Compensation:** $100k–$140k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-05-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/knox-systems/ac3742a2-9195-42e2-b71f-aca97ca56fd1 ## Job description ## THE ROLE As a Technical Account Manager II at Knox, you will own strategic customer relationships for Enterprise customers operating within Knox’s FedRAMP-authorized cloud environment. This role is responsible for ensuring operational success after implementation, driving customer alignment, managing escalations, and serving as a trusted advisor across technical and operational initiatives. You will act as the primary customer advocate within Knox, coordinating closely with SRE, Security, Compliance, Engineering, and Customer Success leadership teams to ensure customers operate successfully in highly regulated environments. Candidates with experience in customer success, technical account management, cloud operations, FedRAMP environments, or regulated customer operations are strongly encouraged to apply. ## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES ● Own ongoing customer relationships following implementation and production go-live. ● Serve as the primary operational and strategic point of contact for customer accounts. ● Advise customers on operational best practices, process adherence, and platform adoption strategies. ● Coordinate cross-functional teams during operational incidents, escalations, and customer-impacting events. ● Drive customer meeting cadence, operational reviews, and executive status updates. ● Ensure customers align with Knox operational expectations, SLAs, incident response procedures, and change management processes. ● Identify customer risks, operational gaps, or adoption concerns and proactively drive mitigation plans. ● Partner with TIMs and Engineering teams to ensure continuity between implementation and long-term operations. ● Advocate for customer needs internally while balancing platform standards and operational scalability. ● Support continuous improvement initiatives related to customer operations, service delivery, and customer experience. ## QUALIFICATIONS ● 3+ years of experience in technical account management, customer success, implementation management, cloud operations, or related customer-facing technical roles. ● Experience supporting customers in regulated or compliance-driven environments. ● Strong understanding of cloud operations and SaaS delivery models. ● Experience managing customer escalations and cross-functional coordination. ● Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and executive stakeholders. ● Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, or regulated operational environments preferred. ● Ability to manage multiple customer workstreams simultaneously. ## Benefits Knox offers a competitive employee benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability and an employee funded 401k plan. Please note, benefits are subject to change. Work Location: Preferred location is Arlington, VA. This role is primarily in-person, while allowing for hybrid flexibility based on business and customer needs. ## Compensation $100k-$140k based on experience plus bonus potential We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Knox is proud to support veteran hiring — we encourage veterans and transitioning service members to apply and welcome the unique skills and experience you bring. ## About Knox Systems ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Knox Systems provides a managed cloud infrastructure and compliance platform that accelerates FedRAMP authorization for SaaS companies to 90 days at 90% lower cost. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; Series A) - **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Computer and Network Security (FedRAMP / Government Cloud Compliance) - **Target Customers**: B2B SaaS companies that need to deploy in FedRAMP Moderate, High, or DoD IL4 environments to sell to U.S. federal and defense agencies. - **Mission Statement**: “FedRAMP in 90 Days for 90% Less.” ## Products & Services - **Knox Cloud**: A managed cloud infrastructure platform that provides single-tenant isolation for every customer application. Deployed on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Includes pre-built architecture and CI/CD pipeline integration. - **KnoxAI**: A proprietary AI-powered monitoring and issue remediation engine trained on 10 years of federal audit data. Handles real-time security monitoring, contextual decision-making, and compliance artifact generation. - **FedRAMP Authorization Service**: A turnkey service that handles the full authorization process, including architecture review, scanning, remediation, and sponsor management. Customers inherit Knox’s existing 15+ ATOs, eliminating the need to find a sponsoring agency. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly available - **Total Funding**: USD 31.5M - Seed Round (August 2025): USD 6.5M led by **Felicis** with 3 investors - Series A (March 2026): USD 25M led by **B Capital** with 7 investors - **Key Metric**: 20+ customers authorized in 90 days or less; 16 federal sponsors (including FEMA for Fed High); 15+ ATOs across civilian and DoD agencies. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: B Capital, Felicis, Irina Denisenko (CEO). The platform is battle-tested from running enterprise applications for Adobe, Celonis, and BigID. - **Growth Signals**: 1,250% headcount growth YoY (4 to 43 employees); monthly headcount growth of 8%. Actively hiring across engineering, DevOps, security, and go-to-market roles. Recently announced 16th federal sponsor. ## Competitive Advantages - **Speed and Cost**: 90-day timeline versus the traditional 12–24 month FedRAMP process; claims 90% cost reduction vs. doing it in-house. - **Sponsor Network**: Customers do not need to find a federal sponsor—they inherit Knox’s 15+ existing ATOs across DHS, FEMA, Marines, Treasury, VA, and others. - **Single-Tenant Isolation**: Dedicated, isolated sub-account per customer (no shared tenant data), reducing blast radius and preventing lateral movement. - **Proven Track Record**: 10 years of experience running enterprise applications in federal environments; 100% success rate despite government shutdowns. - **AI-Native Compliance**: KnoxAI is trained on 10 years of audit data and achieves 99% audit artifact coverage. ## Strategic Focus - **Platform Expansion**: Targeting DoD IL5 authorization by late 2026. - **Multi-Cloud Depth**: Deepening integrations with AWS, Azure, and GCP to remain cloud-agnostic. - **Go-to-Market Scaling**: Building out channel and demand generation teams (open roles: Director of Channels, Director of Demand Generation & ABM). - **Product Development**: Enhancing KnoxAI capabilities including contextual decision engine, QA agents, compliance reasoning model, and analytics insight engine. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven Impact**: Directly enable U.S. government digital transformation by helping innovative SaaS companies get to FedRAMP quickly and securely. - **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly scaling startup (43 employees, +1,250% YoY) with significant Series A funding—ample opportunity for ownership and career acceleration. - **Hybrid Work Policy**: Knox maintains a hybrid workspace model with offices in Austin, TX, and allows remote work for certain roles. - **Engineering Culture**: ~28% of staff are in technical roles (Engineering, DevOps, Security). Leadership includes a CTO (Chris Johnson) and CISO (Hemant Baidwan). Stack leverages AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD), and infrastructure-as-code. - **Recent Open Roles** (as of mid-2026): Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, DevOps Security Engineer, Director of Channels, Jr. IT Administrator. ## Sources 1. [knoxsystems.com](https://knoxsystems.com/) 2. [knoxsystems.com/platform](https://knoxsystems.com/platform) 3. [LinkedIn – Knox Systems, Inc.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/knox-systems-inc) 4. [Built In – Knox Systems, Inc.](https://builtin.com/company/knox-systems-inc) 5. 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