Overview BigBear.ai, is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to assist in supporting and maintaining an application team's development environment, as well as its customer's test/production environments. You will join our project team to support an exciting opportunity with the Army and their mission to independently and rigorously test equipment before it is fielded to the warfighter. This is an opportunity to be part of one of the fastest growing AI/ML companies in the industry. At BigBear.ai, we're in this business together. We own it, we make it thrive, and we enjoy the challenges of our work. We know our employees play the largest role in our continual success. That is why we foster an environment of growth and development, with an emphasis on opportunity, recognition, and work-life balance. We give the same high level of commitment to our employees that we give to our clients. If BigBear.ai sounds like the place where you want to be, we'd enjoy speaking with you. What you will do * Recommend and implement best practices regarding DevOps. * Leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) techniques to ensure environments are stable and changes are managed, automatable, approved, and easily deployable. * Work directly with another Azure Cloud Engineer on the team, as well as collaborate with other Cloud Engineers on other projects with similar architectures * Support the Azure environment used by the development team to build and test its solution. * Configure and manage Azure PaaS resources such as Storage Accounts, Cognitive Services, Search Service, Log Analytics, Recovery Service Vaults, and Private Endpoints * Configure and manage Azure IaaS resources such as load balancers, virtual machines and Azure Virtual Desktop * Support the deployment of the application to the customer's environment. * Verify the BigBear and customer environments are optimized, secure, and backed-up regularly. * Track cloud service costs, configure budgets, and make suggestions for cost optimizations. * Ensure the customer's environment is highly available and recoverable in the event of a disaster * Evaluate new Azure technologies and services and their applicability to the solution * Help maintain cloud infrastructure and DevOps documentation. * Serve as backup to the Azure Cloud Engineer, when needed What you need to have * Active Secret Clearance * Minimum 5 years' experience in IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related field * 2+ years DevOps experience using Git. * Demonstrated experience utilizing Azure PaaS services * Experience practicing/implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) techniques. * Fluency in command line tools such as Azure CLI, PowerShell, and Bash. * An ability to organize, develop, and maintain documentation. * Self-motivation and enthusiasm toward learning new skills and concepts. * Ability to improve automation through the CI/CD pipeline through analysis of the current process using tools. * An ability to work with a cross-functional team in a highly collaborative and remote environment and communicate feedback constructively. * An ability to think critically. All members of the team have an opportunity to shape the future of the project. The ability to think critically and ask if the team's current path serves the customer's interests is crucial to delivering a quality product. What we'd like you to have * A degree in a technical field from an accredited college/university. * A Security+ certification (or equivalent DoD Approved 8570 baseline certification). * One of the following certifications: * Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate * Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate * One or more of the following certifications: * Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert * Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert * Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate * Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate * Comfort creating custom pipelines for commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS). * Azure security skills, to include Azure Firewall, Azure Defender, Network Security Groups, Route Tables, and Azure Sentinel. * Azure monitoring skills, to include Log Analytics and creating custom alerts and actions with Logic Apps and Automation Accounts. * Prior experience working in an SRE/DevOps/Cloud Engineering role on a cross-functional agile team. * Networking skills, with a general understanding of the OSI model and experience troubleshooting issues * SQL experience, including permission management, table and script versioning and backup procedures * Experience developing a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy. * Experience working in an Agile environment * Experience working on a Department of Defense (DoD) contract. * About BigBear.ai BigBear.ai delivers AI-powered analytics and cyber engineering solutions to support mission-critical operations and decision-making in complex, real-world environments. BigBear.ai's customers, which include the US Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, the US Federal Government, as well as customers in manufacturing, healthcare, commercial space, and other sectors, rely on BigBear.ai's solutions to see and shape their world through reliable, predictive insights and goal-oriented advice. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, BigBear.ai is a global, public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, please visit: and follow BigBear.ai on Twitter: @BigBearai . BigBear.ai will request COVID-19 vaccination status information as part of the onboarding process.