Platform Engineer

🕒 September 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $123.3k - $166.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Defense Unicorns

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

💰 Seed Round on 2022-10

Consulting • Logistics • Defense

Defense Unicorns is a cutting-edge technology company focused on transforming the way the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) procures and deploys mission-critical software capabilities. Through its Airgap App Store and Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS), Defense Unicorns offers a centralized marketplace of trusted, pre-approved applications designed for rapid, secure, and compliant deployments in the most secure and complex DoD environments. The company emphasizes speed and reliability in software delivery, catering to various missions across domains such as Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Force. Defense Unicorns meets the unique challenges of DevSecOps for defense systems, ensuring operational adaptability and security in mission-critical software deployments.

📋 Description

• Support the architecture, deployment, configuration, and testing of bare-metal infrastructure, including GPU compute, storage, and networking • Deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot UDS and Kubernetes-based platform services • Develop and manage infrastructure as code and configuration for consistent, repeatable deployments • Support secure software delivery, including container images, registries, packages, and deployment artifacts • Collaborate with mission stakeholders, partner organizations, and Defense Unicorns engineering teams to identify technical requirements and resolve deployment challenges • Collaborate with mission stakeholders, partner organizations, and Defense Unicorns engineering teams to identify technical requirements and resolve platform challenges • Travel 15–25%

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required • Hold or be eligible for a security clearance • Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes or containerized platforms in bare-metal or on-premises environments • Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi • Proficiency with CI/CD tooling, particularly GitLab CI or equivalent pipeline platforms • Working knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems and command-line administration • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, and VPC • Experience supporting GPU-enabled infrastructure or workloads • Ability to read and write YAML fluently for Kubernetes manifests, CRDs, Helm charts, and pipeline configurations • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Possess or ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II certification, such as Security+ CE

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision • Premiums are 100% Company Paid • Health Savings Account • Life Insurance • Disability Insurance • 401k Retirement Plan • Company Stock Options • Home Office Budget • Flexible Time Off (FTO) • Federal Holidays • One week for Thanksgiving • Two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s • Paid Parental Leave • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)