Hiring: Dev/Sec/Ops Platform Engineer Company: BigBear.ai Location: McLean, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:11:36 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Ansible, Azure, CI/CD, Configuration Management, EC2, ECS, Fargate, Helm, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Kafka, Kubernetes, Performance Testing, Pulumi, Security Clearance, Terraform About the job Experience: •Kafka (or equivalent event streaming platform) •Pulumi / Terraform / Ansible (IaC and configuration management) •AWS GovCloud or Azure Government •ECS (with EC2 or Fargate) •What We'd Like You To Have Required Skills: •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. Qualifications: •Clearance: Must maintain a Top Secret security clearance •Bachelor's Degree and 5 to 8 years of experience; Master's Degree and 3 to 6 years of experience Compensation: •$119,441 - $191,106 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!