Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Bigbear.ai•McLean, VA

12h•Remote

About The Position

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer builds and maintains the underlying government cloud infrastructure that supports the program’s polyglot database stack. Working alongside the DevOps/Platform Engineer (who owns CI/CD and the event backbone), this role owns the compute, storage, and networking foundation that everything else depends on, ensuring the environment is scalable, secure, and compliant for IL5 operations. This is a remote role however there will be travel expectations within the DMV area.

Requirements

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
All applicants must currently reside in the United States

Nice To Haves

AWS GovCloud or Azure Government
Terraform
Kubernetes
Networking/VPC configuration (routing, segmentation, connectivity)
IL5 compliance tooling and continuous monitoring practices
Infrastructure ownership: accountable for stable, secure foundations and clean handoffs to platform and application teams.
Automation-first: designs for repeatability and auditability through IaC.
Security-minded: builds least-privileged, segmented, compliant environments by default.
Collaborative delivery: works smoothly with DevOps/Platform, data engineering, and security stakeholders

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.