Senior Mission Manager

🕒 July 9

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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

• Develop and maintain deep expertise in Defense Unicorns products and capabilities, including UDS, Fleet, Zarf, and supporting platform technologies • Translate customer requirements, mission needs, and operational challenges into actionable work items and delivery plans • Own mission outcomes and delivery execution with minimal oversight • Manage backlog management, sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery tracking activities • Work directly with Army stakeholders to understand mission objectives, gather requirements, and communicate progress • Effectively communicate technical concepts and solution capabilities to both technical and non-technical audiences • Drive identification of customer challenges, future capability needs, and opportunities for expanded support • Monitor delivery risks, dependencies, and issues while coordinating mitigation plans • Partner with technical leads, architects, and engineers to ensure solutions align with customer needs and engineering best practices • Contribute technical input to proposals, technical responses, white papers, and ROM development efforts • Support onboarding and mentoring of team members • Participate in hiring activities, candidate interviews, and team-building efforts • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers throughout the delivery lifecycle

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments (Azure AKS, AWS EKS, or on-prem distributions such as RKE2, K3s, or OpenShift) • Experience with Helm for packaging and deploying containerized applications • Working knowledge of GitOps workflows and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, OpenTofu) • Familiarity with hybrid cloud architectures, including networking, RBAC, and storage for cloud and on-prem clusters • Understanding of DevSecOps/DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or GitHub) • Experience working with or supporting the U.S. Army, Army Software Factory, or similar DoD software organizations • Strong communication skills and effectiveness in a fully remote team environment • Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision • Willingness to travel as needed for on-site training and support

🏖️ 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) • Paid Parental Leave