Capabilities

Federal IT systems engineering, scoped, configured, and delivered.

A reference for contracting officers, prime small business liaisons, and capture managers evaluating Kosma Technology for teaming, subcontracting, or competitive set inclusion.

[ 01 ] VERIFY

Identifiers, designations & engagement

Identifiers & Designations

Legal name
Kosma Technology, LLC
UEI
JKGVCZR4ZYW9
CAGE
9MD20
State
Maryland
Primary NAICS
541512 · Computer Systems Design Services
NAICS
541511 · 541513 · 541519 · 518210 · 541330
PSC
DA01 · DC01 · DG01 · DJ01 · R425
Designations
SBA VOSB · Maryland VSBE · Clearance-Eligible
AFFILIATIONS
Veteran Institute for Procurement (VIP) Start (Graduate) · Project Opportunity (Graduate)
SBA Veteran-Owned Certified Maryland VSBE Program — Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprise

Engagement & Access

  • MODES — Subcontractor and teaming partner on prime task orders; prime on simplified acquisitions and set-asides.
  • VEHICLES — Direct award via SAM.gov today; sub-seat access through prime teaming agreements. Roadmap: GSA MAS IT, Maryland CATS+.
  • POSTURE — DC/MD/VA federal corridor · on-site, hybrid, or remote delivery.
  • RESPONSE — Same-business-day reply to teaming inquiries and Sources Sought.

[ 02 ] CAPABILITY

Core competencies in operational depth

Kosma delivers federal IT systems engineering for programs where the infrastructure has to work, the platform has to scale, and the work has to pass audit. Two practice areas carry that work, both run with the discipline of an enterprise operations team. Data and AI engineering deploy in support of both.

PRACTICE 01

Infrastructure & Systems Engineering

Cloud, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps engineering for federal modernization, delivered by an engineer who architects and operates production systems at enterprise scale.

METHODS

  • Production-first architecture: design decisions made for the team that will operate the system
  • Infrastructure-as-code with GitOps continuous deployment, no manual configuration drift
  • DevSecOps shifted left, with security validation continuous from commit forward
  • Continuous-ATO documentation produced alongside architecture, not bolted on at audit
  • Parallel-run migration patterns with zero-downtime cutover

Tools

  • Cloud platforms: AWS GovCloud (EKS, ECS, RDS, Transit Gateway, IAM Identity Center) and Azure Government (AKS, Entra ID, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud), with Control Tower and Landing Zones for tenant governance.
  • Containers and orchestration: Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and DoD Platform One Big Bang, with Iron Bank hardened images and Istio service mesh. Helm and Kustomize for packaging, Argo CD or Flux for GitOps continuous deployment.
  • DevSecOps and pipelines: CI/CD with GitLab, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins; infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible; secrets with HashiCorp Vault. Pipeline security includes SAST, SCA, and container scanning (Trivy, Anchore, Prisma Cloud), with Sigstore for supply chain attestation.
  • Operations and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, and Datadog.

Standards

  • NIST SP 800-53, 800-171, and 800-207 (Zero Trust Architecture)
  • FedRAMP Moderate and High
  • DoD Zero Trust Strategy 2.0
  • DISA STIG and CIS Benchmark hardening
  • OSCAL for continuous ATO documentation

PRACTICE 02

Enterprise Platform Delivery

ServiceNow, Atlassian, and Microsoft Power Platform delivery for federal modernization, configured with engineering discipline so the platform outlasts the integrator.

Methods

  • Configure, don't build from scratch: every customization is justified, documented, and reversible
  • Version-controlled platform configurations promoted through dev, test, and production environments
  • Modular design that lets the agency extend or replace components without rewriting the platform
  • Center-of-Excellence patterns for citizen-developer enablement, with guardrails on data, identity, and lifecycle
  • Agile delivery aligned to the platform vendor's release cadence

Tools

  • Atlassian: Jira Software, Jira Service Management (JSM), Confluence, Bitbucket, and Atlassian Guard, with REST APIs and webhooks for integration.
  • ServiceNow: ITSM, ITOM, HRSD, SecOps, App Engine, and AI Agent Studio, with IntegrationHub for cross-platform automation.
  • Microsoft Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio, with Microsoft Graph for tenant integration.
  • Federal cloud environments: ServiceNow Government Cloud (FedRAMP High), Atlassian Government Cloud (FedRAMP Moderate), and Power Platform US Government (GCC and GCC High).

Standards

  • FedRAMP Moderate and High platform deployments
  • ITIL 4 alignment for IT service management implementations
  • NIST SP 800-53 control implementation
  • NARA records-retention and electronic records management
  • Section 508 accessibility compliance

Supporting Capabilities

Data and AI Engineering

Data platform engineering on Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric, plus RAG pipelines and Copilot Studio agent development. Typically delivered at architecture, advisory, or pilot scope alongside infrastructure or platform engagements.

Quality is better than quantity.

A small number of people, carefully selected, well trained, and well led, are preferable to larger numbers of troops, some of whom may not be up to the task.

SOF Truth II
United States Special Operations Command

[ 03 ] EVIDENCE

Relevant experience

Kosma was founded in 2026 to bring senior engineering leadership to federal missions. The engagements below were scoped, architected, and led by Kosma's founder while serving as Director of Systems Engineering for a 3,200-employee international organization. The same engineering leadership directs every Kosma engagement today.

CLOUD·KUBERNETES·MIGRATION

$5–6M→~$300K/yr

Capital infrastructure consolidated to cloud spend

The migration was scoped as a refactor, not a lift-and-shift. The monolithic LAMP+ stack was decomposed into modular Kubernetes services so each business function (HRIS, finance, inventory, mobile) could scale, deploy, and recover independently. Argo CD enforced GitOps as the only path to production, eliminating manual configuration drift. Parallel-run cutover validated the new system under full production load before the legacy stack was retired, with rollback preserved at every step.

Architected and led by Kosma's founder · 2024-2025

ATLASSIAN PLATFORM AT SCALE

300+ venues·2 countries

Phone-and-spreadsheet workflows replaced with two enterprise platform systems.

The HR Case Management System was built on Jira to keep the platform configurable rather than custom. Workflows, fields, and reporting were configured against Jira's native capabilities so the system could evolve with the vendor's release cadence rather than against it. The same architecture was extended to a second domain, Incident Reporting, and deployed across 300+ venues in two countries with role-based access, regional configuration, and consolidated reporting. Five years on, both systems remain core to operations and continue to scale with the organization without re-platforming.

Architected and led by Kosma's founder · 2020–present

DEVSECOPS·PLATFORM·GOVERNANCE

6 senior engineers→3,200 employees

A DevSecOps platform engineered to enable, not constrain.

The platform was scoped to Thinnest Viable Platform discipline. Every capability the platform team owned had to demonstrably reduce delivery friction for an application team, or it didn't get built. Security validation moved from end-of-cycle review to continuous validation at commit time, embedded in the pipeline rather than appended at the gate. Governance was scoped to delivery outcomes rather than feature counts, which kept the platform's roadmap accountable to the work it accelerated. The platform team operated as an enabling and X-as-a-Service team, freeing application teams to own product outcomes without rebuilding infrastructure, security, or deployment plumbing each time.

Architected and led by Kosma's founder · 2025–present

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