Platform Engineer – Secret/Top Secret

🕒 May 18

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Defense Unicorns

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51 - 200 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Seed Round on 2022-10

Defense • Software • Cybersecurity

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

• Operate and maintain Production UDS Cloud Environments (Kubernetes and the UDS baseline of tools we deliver to Mission Heroes/Customers), supporting teams operating within that environment • Develop and maintain a secure, scalable, and observable environment based on Infrastructure-as-Code, leveraging Terraform/OpenTofu across various Kubernetes distributions (EKS, RKE2, and others) • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting the full software development lifecycle — compiling, scanning, containerizing, testing, linting, deploying, monitoring, and releasing • Leverage a diverse set of cloud and on-prem IaaS providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, vSphere, Proxmox, LXD) to build robust, scalable systems for cloud, on-prem, and hybrid architectures • Design and implement observability tooling — particularly stacks built on Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana — to help teams diagnose and resolve production-impacting incidents • Participate in on-call rotation to address production-impacting incidents (business hours only for now) • Identify and articulate gaps in existing processes, contributing insights to the product backlog • Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Work within an Agile framework in a remote environment

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience operating production cloud-native systems within the Kubernetes ecosystem • Proficiency in IaC, particularly Terraform or OpenTofu • Experience with automation in Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages • Experience with CI/CD methodologies and systems such as GitLab Runners or GitHub Actions • Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments • Experience building and operating observability platforms, particularly those built on OpenSearch/ELK, Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana • Understanding of NIST 800-171/800-53 and FedRAMP requirements • Experience in an on-call capacity for platform reliability; ability to monitor, improve, and restore operations within a DevSecOps team • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work both independently and collaboratively • Active DoD Security Clearance (Secret minimum, Top Secret preferred) • CompTIA Security+, comparable certification, or ability to obtain within 3 months of hire

🏖️ 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 • Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions • Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)