Bluestaq US External

Principal Solution Architect, AI & OSINT Systems

Remote - Colorado or Virginia · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago

ElasticsearchAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDMachine LearningData EngineeringRAGLeadershipWriting

About the role

You work at the intersection of AWS cloud architecture, applied AI, and intelligence tradecraft.
This is an ownership role, not a coordination role.
When the architecture holds under load and across classification levels, you are the reason.

As the Principal Solution Architect for Bluestaq's OSINT mission capability, you design the AWS systems that turn open-source data into mission intelligence.
You translate analyst requirements into AWS service selection, model design, data pipelines, and deployment patterns that hold up in defense environments.
Build the AI stack on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, including model access, Bedrock Guardrails, Knowledge Bases, and managed endpoints.
Design retrieval pipelines using Amazon OpenSearch, S3 data lakes for governed, least-privilege access.
Apply OSINT tradecraft and operational security discipline to collection system design.
Own model governance for air-gapped and classified environments, including provenance, integrity verification, and update processes.
Partner with security and accreditation authorities to drive ATO and continuous ATO.
Partner with engineering directors and program leadership to align this architecture with Bluestaq's broader AI platform strategy, so it becomes a pattern other programs can build on.

10+ years designing and deploying production systems, including 5+ years architecting on AWS.
Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker for production AI and ML workloads.
Experience with AWS networking and security, including VPC design, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, IAM Identity Center, and AWS KMS.
Experience deploying AWS workloads in disconnected, degraded, or air-gapped (DDIL) conditions, including AWS Snowball Edge or AWS Outposts.
Working knowledge of the differences between commercial AWS and the GovCloud, Secret, and Top Secret Regions.
Familiarity with vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, and embedding pipelines on AWS.
Working knowledge of OSINT and publicly available information collection, tradecraft, and analytic workflows.
Working knowledge of DoD compliance frameworks, including the Cloud Computing SRG, FedRAMP, and ITAR.
Clear technical writing and the ability to brief senior leaders and decision-makers.
Prior OSINT analyst or PAI targeting experience in a DoD or Intelligence Community context.

Experience with cross-domain solutions and multi-level security.
Strong grounding in containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker on AWS, such as EKS.
Experience with self-hosted model serving on local GPUs, such as vLLM or TGI, inside an enclave.
Familiarity with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and MITRE ATT&CK.
Experience supporting OCONUS or deployed DoD programs. <span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335559738":0,"33555
Set the AWS reference architecture for AI and ML systems that ingest, enrich, and exploit open-source and publicly available information at scale.
Architect around the service gaps and parity differences between commercial AWS and the government and classified regions.
Orchestrate workflows with AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda, and define CI/CD with infrastructure as code using AWS CDK and Terraform.

This listing is sourced directly from Bluestaq US External's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.