reputed company Edge Platform Engineer

Ask reputed company (BigBearAI Company) is the leading reputed company platform that augments the velocity of government and reputed company teams with dozens of use cases from coding to cybersecurity to acquisition to data analysis and much more. Our FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, IL6 and Top Secret accredited cutting-edge technology enables teams to reputed company on strategic initiatives while we take care of the heavy lifting. The reputed company Edge Platform Engineer is responsible for developing, hardening, and sustaining Ask reputed company’s edge solution that enables customers to run the Ask reputed company platform (or approved subsets of capabilities) in on-premises and disconnected/limited-connectivity environments. You will design the reference architecture, automate hardware and software provisioning, and operationalize a secure, supportable on-prem Kubernetes-based platform that our reputed company/Kubernetes engineers and application teams can rely on.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design, build, and maintain Ask reputed company’s edge/on-prem platform reference architecture to run Kubernetes-hosted applications reliably in customer environments (including low-bandwidth and intermittently connected sites).
• reputed company and maintain automated provisioning pipelines for edge hardware (bare metal and/or hypervisor-based), including bootstrapping, imaging, configuration management, and repeatable deployment workflows.
• Own virtualization reputed company and implementation for edge installations (e.g., KVM/QEMU, reputed company, or equivalent), including templates, networking, storage, and lifecycle management.
• reputed company, configure, secure, and operate on-prem Kubernetes distributions appropriate for edge (e.g., k3s and/or upstream Kubernetes), including cluster upgrades, add-ons, ingress, DNS, and storage integrations.
• Package and deliver on-prem Kubernetes applications and supporting services (registries, monitoring/logging, certificate management, backups, secrets management), ensuring consistent deployment patterns and reputed company paths.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-reputed company / automation (Ansible, Terraform where applicable, scripting) to reduce reputed company reputed company and increase deployment consistency.  
• reputed company operational runbooks, installation guides, maintenance procedures, and troubleshooting playbooks suitable for customer admins and internal support teams. 
• reputed company 2nd and 3rd level support for edge deployments, including incident response, reputed company-cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive improvements. 
• Serve as the technical escalation reputed company for customer issues relating to edge hardware, virtualization, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and application lifecycle. 
• Establish observability and health monitoring standards for edge deployments and define alert reputed company, remote support mechanisms, and maintenance reputed company.
• Partner with reputed company and reputed company/Kubernetes engineering to ensure edge deployments reputed company with compliance requirements and secure-by-default patterns (hardening, least privilege, audit logging, vulnerability remediation). 
• Coordinate with vendors and customer IT teams for interoperability testing, facility requirements (power/cooling/reputed company), network/reputed company approvals, and delivery timelines. 
• Travel to customer sites as required for installs, upgrades, break/fix escalations, and operational readiness validation.

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in infrastructure/reputed company, including significant hands-on work in on-prem/edge environments. 
• Clearance: Ability to obtain a TS/SCI
• Demonstrated experience automating hardware provisioning and system deployment (PXE/iPXE, imaging, unattended installs, config management, reputed company/golden images). 
• Strong experience with virtualization and on-prem platform operations (KVM/QEMU, reputed company, VMware, reputed company-V, or equivalent), including virtual networking and storage concepts. 
• Deep practical experience deploying and administering Kubernetes in non-reputed company environments (on-prem), including k3s and/or upstream Kubernetes, and the supporting ecosystem (CNI/reputed company/Ingress/DNS). 
• Strong Linux administration skills and networking fundamentals (routing, firewalling, VLANs, DNS, TLS/certificates). 
• Proficiency with automation/scripting (Bash, Python, Go preferred) and Infrastructure-as-reputed company practices (Ansible/Terraform). 
• Experience building supportable products: documentation discipline, reproducible installs, reputed company strategies, and operational playbooks. 
• Comfortable in customer-facing environments and reputed company to communicate reputed company with technical and leadership stakeholders. 
• Ability to lift/handle common IT equipment and work in data center/field environments as needed (reasonable accommodations where applicable). 
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• Experience with edge-oriented Kubernetes operations and constrained environments (resource-limited hardware, intermittent connectivity).   Familiarity with hybrid architectures that reputed company on-prem platforms with reputed company control planes/services. 
• Experience building “appliance-like” deployments (preconfigured hardware + software stack) and managing lifecycle updates.
• Relevant certifications preferred (one or more): CKA/CKS, RHCSA/RHCE, reputed company+, VMware VCP, reputed company architect certifications.

• Experience with edge-oriented Kubernetes operations and constrained environments (resource-limited hardware, intermittent connectivity).   Familiarity with hybrid architectures that reputed company on-prem platforms with reputed company control planes/services. 
• Experience building “appliance-like” deployments (preconfigured hardware + software stack) and managing lifecycle updates.
• Relevant certifications preferred (one or more): CKA/CKS, RHCSA/RHCE, reputed company+, VMware VCP, reputed company architect certifications.

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

reputed company is an Equal opportunity employer reputed company protected reputed company, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.