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Lead company-wide operations, strategic execution, performance management, facilities, G&A, compliance, and cross-functional planning. Build OKRs, KPIs, operating processes, AI-enabled workflows, classified-readiness infrastructure, and corporate governance systems. Partner with the CEO and Finance on strategy, GTM initiatives, fundraising diligence, budgets, and organizational scaling. Oversee legal operations, procurement, vendor management, export compliance, government registrations, facilities buildouts, and operational risk.

Own the vision, roadmap, and lifecycle of Quindar’s Mission Planning capabilities across Plan and Portal products. Translate mission objectives into executable spacecraft and ground operations plans, improve scheduling and constraint-aware automation, and design workflows for diverse mission stakeholders. Conduct user research, define requirements and success metrics, collaborate with engineering and design, and lead prioritization, launch, and iteration for complex technical products.

Architects, automates, tests, deploys, and maintains highly available Kubernetes infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, offline, and secure environments. Owns Kubernetes deployment strategy, DevSecOps practices, secure networking, monitoring, performance, availability, and compliance. Collaborates with software engineers and customers on architecture deployments, cloud-native services, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and distributed systems within an Agile Scrum environment.

Administer government and commercial contracts and subcontracts throughout their lifecycle, including proposals, negotiations, compliance, subcontractor management, risk mitigation, documentation, obligation tracking, and closeout. The role supports FAR/DFARS compliance, contract reviews, flowdowns, solicitation activities, and internal contractual guidance while improving contract administration processes.

Deploy and support mission-critical software in customer environments, troubleshooting across APIs, cloud infrastructure, databases, and frontend systems. Travel to customer sites and collaborate with satellite operations teams to prototype solutions, gather product feedback, and shape roadmap priorities. Partner with Product and Engineering to productionize successful prototypes, while creating integration playbooks, documentation, and training resources.

Develop backend services, APIs, cloud-native applications, and mission-specific software for satellite operations. Build full-stack features using Python, AWS, React, TypeScript, and GraphQL; design distributed systems; manage containerized and serverless architectures; automate infrastructure and deployments; troubleshoot production issues; and improve system scalability, security, reliability, observability, and performance while collaborating with government customers and cross-functional teams.

Leads technical execution for complex commercial and government satellite ground-system programs. Coordinates software, infrastructure, reliability, security, and mission integration teams; resolves cross-system risks; supports architecture, design reviews, mission readiness, anomaly resolution, proposals, and customer engagements. Provides mentorship while contributing to design, implementation, prototyping, and technical problem solving. Requires extensive aerospace or mission-critical software experience and an active Secret clearance.

Develop backend satellite operations software using Python and AWS, build and troubleshoot APIs, integrate containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes), use IaC (Terraform), collaborate in Agile teams, and contribute to generative AI integrations, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and architecture to support scalable, secure mission operations.

Lead cross-functional delivery of commercial space and aerospace programs from proposal through deployment. Manage scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, milestones, customer relationships, documentation, and performance tracking. Coordinate engineering, product, sales, and business development teams while translating technical requirements into executable plans. Support proposals and business growth, and operate across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery environments.

Develop scalable, secure backend satellite mission-operations software using Python and AWS. Build APIs, integrate cloud services, troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and costs, and automate processes. Contribute to generative AI integrations, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and software architecture. Collaborate with frontend engineers and product managers in an Agile Scrum environment while maintaining high standards for reliability, quality, and security.