Senior Platform Engineer

🕒 September 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $148.8k - $201.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 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

• Develop and maintain a runtime production environment • Serve as the link between application teams and platform teams • Advocate best practices and facilitate communication between application development and platform teams • Validate solutions and implementations against tasks and business requirements • Independently identify and solve business problems • Develop small components to address specific challenges • Understand how medium-level tasks contribute to overall goals • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate components into a cohesive platform • Estimate time and effort for medium-sized tasks • Assist with project planning and resource allocation • Use programming languages and shell scripting appropriately for efficient task execution • Own the bridge between application development teams and the production environment • Adapt to additional responsibilities as organizational needs evolve

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required • Proven experience as a Platform Engineer or similar role, with a focus on system architecture and development • Experience with Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and Docker • Familiarity with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, systems, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services • Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Go, or Ansible • Basic understanding of shell scripting • Proficiency with YAML • Experience working on a team following an Agile framework in a remote environment • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills • Experience with security automation and familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and Cloud Security • Familiarity with architecture security design, monitoring, and performance instrumentation in a complex enterprise environment • Comfort debugging systems and reading/writing code • Hold a Top Secret/SCI security clearance or be eligible to apply for a security clearance • DoD 8570 IAT II certification • Experience with Department of Defense work, specifically a production Authority to Operate (ATO'd) system • Knowledge of DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD theory • Travel expectations: 10%-25%

🏖️ 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)