Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BigBear.ai provides AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer builds and operates secure, scalable government cloud infrastructure supporting a polyglot database platform, with responsibility for compute, storage, networking, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes foundations, IL5 compliance, and operational readiness.
Responsibilities
- Design, provision, and operate core cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) in AWS GovCloud or Azure Government
- Build and maintain infrastructure that supports a polyglot data platform (relational, graph, document, and object storage services), including environment sizing and scaling patterns
- Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform) for repeatable, auditable provisioning across dev/test/prod environments
- Own network and connectivity design and operations (VPC/VNet configuration, subnets, routing, security groups/NACLs, private connectivity patterns, DNS)
- Partner with data engineering and platform teams to ensure database services are performant, highly available, and recoverable (backup/restore, replication, and DR patterns)
- Support Kubernetes infrastructure needs (cluster foundations, node groups, storage classes, ingress/egress patterns) in coordination with the platform team
- Implement and maintain IL5-aligned infrastructure controls and evidence (configuration baselines, hardening, vulnerability remediation, and continuous compliance tooling)
- Establish operational readiness: monitoring/alerting for infrastructure components, runbooks, capacity planning inputs, and incident support
Skills
- Must maintain a Top Secret security clearance
- Bachelor's Degree and 8 to 10 years of experience; Master's Degree and 6 to 8 years of experience; (in lieu of Bachelor's degree, 6 additional years of relevant experience)
- 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience, including delivery and operations in a government cloud environment
- Demonstrated experience provisioning and operating multi-service infrastructure that supports multiple database paradigms (relational, graph, document, and object storage)
- Strong infrastructure as code skills (Terraform) and configuration management discipline
- Hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud or Azure Government, including secure networking patterns
- Solid Kubernetes foundation knowledge (infrastructure integration, storage/networking support, and cluster-adjacent services)
- Experience working in compliance-driven environments, including IL5 requirements and associated compliance tooling/practices
- IC/DoD experience
- AWS GovCloud or Azure Government
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Networking/VPC configuration (routing, segmentation, connectivity)
- IL5 compliance tooling and continuous monitoring practices
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
Company Overview