Palantir’s $10B Army contract = massive data center hiring wave that nobody’s talking about.
Military AI can’t run on public cloud.
Government needs:
• Air-gapped data centers
• SCIF facilities• Cleared infrastructure teams
Data center ops: $80K-120K
Network engineers: $100K-150K
Cloud architects: $130K-200K+
Essential certs:
✅ Security+ (clearance req)
✅ CCNA (networking)
✅ VMware vSphere (virtualization)
Companies hiring: Iron Mountain Gov, Booz Allen, CACI, GDИТ, SAIC
Get certified and target defense infrastructure while everyone else fights for Big Tech scraps.