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 Dev/Sec/Ops Platform Engineer builds and operates the platform foundation, including event streaming, CI/CD, GovCloud/IL5 infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, and security controls. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, secure deployment, and enabling application and data teams in a regulated environment.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate the event backbone (Kafka or equivalent), including topic design guidance, reliability patterns, throughput scaling, and operational monitoring
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support repeatable, secure builds and deployments across environments
- Provision and manage the GovCloud/IL5 hosting environment, ensuring it meets program security and compliance expectations
- Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) for cloud resources, cluster provisioning, network/security configuration, and environment replication
- Deploy and operate Kubernetes platforms for application and data services, including cluster configuration, upgrades, and workload reliability
- Establish platform observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and operational readiness (runbooks, alerting, incident response support)
- Partner with security and architecture teams to implement platform security controls (least privilege, secrets management, network segmentation, patching cadence)
- Drive reliability engineering practices: backup/restore, disaster recovery planning, performance testing support, and capacity planning
Skills
- All applicants must currently reside in the United States
- This position is remote however travel within the DMV area will be expected
- Clearance: Must maintain a Top Secret security clearance
- Active Security+ Certificate
- Ability to obtain AWS Certificate (Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect: Associate/Professional) within one month after onboarding
- Bachelor's Degree and 5 to 8 years of experience; Master's Degree and 3 to 6 years of experience
- 5+ years of DevOps / platform engineering experience delivering and operating systems in a government cloud environment
- Strong experience with event streaming architecture and operations (Kafka or equivalent), including production support and performance tuning
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform and/or Ansible) and disciplined configuration management
- Hands-on experience in AWS GovCloud or Azure Government environments
- Strong Kubernetes experience (deployments, Helm or equivalent packaging, cluster operations, and troubleshooting workload)
- Experience implementing DoD security controls and remediations (hardening and patching OS)
- Experience working in compliance-driven environments (e.g., IL5, RMF-aligned controls) with a security-first operations mindset
- IC/DoD experience
- Kafka (or equivalent event streaming platform)
- Pulumi / Terraform / Ansible (IaC and configuration management)
- Kubernetes
- AWS GovCloud or Azure Government
- ECS (with EC2 or Fargate)
- Operational ownership: builds platforms that are supportable, observable, and resilient
- Automation mindset: eliminates manual steps via IaC and CI/CD discipline
- Cross-team enablement: designs platforms that help developers move faster with guardrails
- Calm problem-solving: strong troubleshooting skills under real-world constraints
Benefits
- This position is remote however travel within the DMV area will be expected.
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