Cloud Engineer

• Lead and support delivery teams across cloud development, cloud architecture, systems engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps engineering and operations, and Agile methodologies
• Serve as a technical liaison between the customer and the engineering team, translating mission needs into clear technical requirements and implementation plans
• Act as the technical point of contact for cloud engineering stakeholders, aligning expectations and communicating risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs
• Plan, execute, and close projects to meet customer objectives, timelines, and quality expectations
• Define and track delivery health metrics and project KPIs; provide routine reporting to government leadership and internal management
• Design, implement, and maintain tooling and infrastructure to support modern development, testing, automation, and deployment
• Establish and continuously improve DevSecOps processes across development, test, release, deployment, update, and support activities
• Select, implement, and optimize CI/CD tools and pipelines to enable repeatable and secure delivery
• Perform technical reviews to validate software quality, supportability, and alignment with standards (including code and automation artifacts)
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the stack, resolve defects, and drive root cause analysis for recurring problems
• Promote automation-first practices to reduce manual work and improve speed, reliability, and consistency
• Integrate security throughout the lifecycle by enabling continuous vulnerability assessment, risk management, and secure engineering controls
• Support incident management activities and coordinate remediation across internal teams and customer stakeholders
• Coordinate and communicate effectively with distributed teams and customers (internal and external) throughout the delivery lifecycle

Bachelor's Degree and 2 to 5 years of experience; Master's Degree and 0 to 3 years of experience; 8 to 10 years with no degree

• Clearance: Must maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance
• Cloud: Foundational experience with AWS, including core services and
• Architecture: Foundational understanding of cloud architecture and design patterns
• Cloud computing: Foundational knowledge of cloud computing principles and delivery models
• Experience providing technical leadership in at least one of the following: cloud engineering, DevSecOps, platform engineering, or cloud security
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate customer requirements into actionable technical work
• Experience implementing or operating CI/CD pipelines and modern development toolchains
• Ability to work across teams to plan work, manage priorities, and deliver outcomes in an Agile environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• CompTIA Security+
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect (or comparable certification in Azure or GCP)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitLab and/or Jenkins (certifications or formal training preferred)
• ITIL certification
• Experience supporting intelligence or national security missions in a secure environment

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai's predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit https://bigbear.ai/ and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

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