Sr. DevOps Engineer

BigBear.ai is seeking aBigBear.ai is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our team and help accelerate a federal mission client’s discovery and delivery of identity and network-based intelligence insights to counter national security threats and malicious actors. Our software developers will assist in crafting, testing, and recommending scalable, flexible, and resilient designs and implement integrations with a standard platform in a cloud environment. The ideal candidate will have experience in strategizing overall build tools and software to facilitate information and data sharing, and advance analytic practices.

This position will be on-site in Washington, DC

What you will do

Employ software development techniques and methodologies for solving tough analytical challenges in support of one of national security threats

Use software development skills to automate manual analytical processes

Opportunity to expand upon beyond specializations to include front end user interfaces, back end microservices, web services, cloud architectures, as well as databases and other persistent data stores

Deploy developed IT solutions, user applications, databases, and other IT capabilities

Design and develop specialized user solutions, applications and databases using a hybrid Agile approach within a DevOps environment

Provide Tier 2/3 technical support for deployed applications and databases

Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git

Experience with cloud message APIs and usage of push notifications

Maintain code integrity and organization

Collaborate with the rest of engineering team to design and launch new features. Includes coordination and documentation of deployment procedures, release plans, etc.

Keen interest in learning and using the latest software tools, methods, and technologies to solve real world problem sets vital to national security

What you should have

Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years of experience (in lieu of Bachelor’s degree, 6 additional years of relevant experience)

Clearance: Must possess and maintain an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

Understanding of cloud architectures and enabling tools and technologies, such as, AWS Cloud (GovCloud/C2S)

Familiar with Amazon Web Managed Services (AWS)

High experience level with back-end programming languages (Python)

Working knowledge with datastores PostgreSQL, S3, and Elasticsearch

Familiar with Configuration Management and CI Tools, such as, Git/Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible

Familiar with Linux/Unix server environments and scripting language

Experience with Agile development methodology

Working knowledge with Collaboration tools, such as, Jira and Confluence

Experience of the IC Enterprise Audit Program established by the DNI/IC CIO

Experience with ICS 500-27 audit exchange

DoD 8570- IAT Level II certification required (or the ability to obtain within 6 months of hire)

What we'd like you to have

DoD 8570-IAT Level II Certification

About BigBear.ai

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 Columbia, Maryland, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

Regular Full-Time