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Tyto Athene, LLC · 23 hours ago

Infrastructure Services Director - TALON

Herndon, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

Tyto Athene is searching for a high-caliber Infrastructure Services Director to spearhead the establishment and operation of their high-performance AI R&D Lab/Data Center, TALON. This strategic role is critical for delivering high-quality, self-service infrastructure that empowers AI R&D teams to rapidly develop and test mission-oriented solutions, including advanced defensive and mission cyber AI technologies.

Information Technology

Work & Life Balance

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead Data Center Hardware and Software Acquisition: Finalize labor requirements, and coordinate with OEMs, VARs, Software Vendors, and partners to build compute and transport infrastructure in TALON lab

Operationalize Data Center: Oversee the delivery, receipt, installation, racking/stacking, configuration, integration and making infrastructure available for service

Manage TALON Data Center in Dulles, VA: Apply DevOps principles in operating, managing configurations, making entire service management lifecycle for all assets within the TALON on premise data center (including specialized GPU based infrastructure), remote nodes and cloud environments

Attain CMMC Accreditation for TALON environments: Establish and drive the plan to attain a CMMC accreditation for the TALON environments including data center, remote node and cloud environments, while future proofing the infrastructure strategy to embrace future needs such as NIPR/SIPR/JWICS interconnects. The plan will support needs for persisting and training models on customer provided data sets

Cyber Network Strategy: Design, implement and operate network segments and associated infrastructure to securely meet the unique needs of TALON AI cyber projects, covering both defensive and mission cyber considerations

Serve as Technical Lead and administrator for TALON Data Center and TALON lab IT infrastructure

Maintain data center, audio visual, wifi, software, and all lab IT infrastructure

Cloud platforms: Plan, provision, and optimize AWS/Azure/GCP (compute, networking, IAM, cost control); enforce guardrails and landing zones. Experience managing IL 2/4/5/6 environments

Networks & OT connectivity: Design and secure LAN/WAN/SD-WAN/Wi-Fi, firewalls. Must have experience managing NIPR and SIPR, and high-level knowledge of JWICS networks

Cybersecurity & compliance: Implement zero-trust controls, patching, identity, logging/SIEM, and audit readiness (NIST/ISO). Implement CCMC standards

Service management: Own the service catalog, SLAs, capacity planning, vendor contracts, and budget

Facilities interface: Coordinate with facilities on power, cooling, UPS/generators, and physical security for server rooms

Qualification

HPC/GPU expertiseCMMC complianceDevOps principlesCloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)Infrastructure operationsContainer platformsNetwork design/securityCybersecurity controlsService managementSoft skills

Required

10+ years of experience with core infrastructure operations: Windows/Linux, virtualization, storage, backups, and disaster recovery-standardized via infrastructure-as-code and live dashboards

HPC cluster system administration, preferably in rapid AI and cyber solution prototyping environments

State of the art GPU technologies and their integration into HPC environments (driver management, software stack tools, monitoring, workload scheduling)

Infiniband, NVLink, NVQLink, Spectrum-X (driver management, software stack tools, monitoring)

Container platforms (ex: Apptainer, docker, openshift, Kubernetes, EKS)

Familiarity and prior work experience with technologies such as: Ansible, GIT, Slurm, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana and Docker

Slurm or other cluster schedulers, configuration and management solutions

NFS, SMB, and distributed object, file, and block storage management and configuration

High-performance parallel filesystem management and configuration

Installing and repairing servers and associated cluster hardware

Experience in devising a CMMC strategy and the successful attainment of a CMMC Level 3 accreditation for an AI powered R&D lab serving a government contractor