Senior Platform Engineer

🕒 July 16

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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 Kubernetes-based deployments in both on-prem and cloud infrastructure, ensuring platform components operate reliably across hybrid environments • Implement and manage storage services across AWS and on-premises environments, including persistent storage decoupled from ephemeral VMs, backup and recovery, and cross-environment data synchronization • Support networking, identity, and security controls across hybrid environments, including integration with IAM solutions (e.g., Keycloak, AWS IAM) • Demonstrate the ability to identify and solve business problems independently. Develop small components to address specific challenges without relying on explicit architecture diagrams • Provide grounded time and effort estimates for medium-sized tasks. Assist in project planning and resource allocation based on estimated timelines • Build and maintain automated pipeline functions, leading teams towards delivery and sustainment options • Contribute to the build and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure as well as our Enterprise IaC modules • Adhere to SLA commitments, including on-call support for critical UDS issues in customer environments • Serve as the primary technical interface for System Integrators and mission heroes, providing guidance, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex UDS issues

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret Clearance (or ability to obtain one) • Proven experience as a Platform Engineer or similar role, with a focus on cloud infrastructure (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (i.e. Terraform/OpenTofu, Spacelift) • Demonstrated experience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, and Docker • Hands-on experience with AWS storage services (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx) and familiarity with on-premises storage systems (e.g., NFS, SAN/NAS, Ceph), including experience with persistent storage in ephemeral or non-persistent compute environments • Experience architecting and maintaining hybrid cloud/on-prem environments • Strong knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures, including networking, RBAC, and storage for cloud and on-prem clusters • Experienced in working on a team following an Agile framework in a remote environment • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently • Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

🏖️ 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) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s • Paid Parental Leave