Platform Engineer – FedD200, FedD201, FedD202

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $123.3k - $201.3k / 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

• Join the Navy Delivery team at the intersection of platform engineering, application development, DevOps, and application security • Help application teams integrate, package, secure, deploy, and operate software on the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS) and Kubernetes-based environments • Work with application source code, APIs, containers, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes resources, Helm charts, and production runtime concerns • Translate application-team needs into repeatable deployment artifacts and processes • Identify issues across application and platform layers • Support CI/CD components, runner deployments and maintenance, UDS packaging, Kubernetes and Helm configuration, observability, security controls, and process automation • Evaluate methods for solving complex technical problems and identify innovative solutions • Solve problems spanning multiple knowledge domains and contribute to strategic planning • Implement infrastructure as code and build or maintain Kubernetes clusters across distributions such as EKS and RKE2 • Apply cloud-native deployment experience, secure coding practices, and vulnerability remediation • Build relationships with external teams and collaborate with platform teams • Travel 4–12 times per year

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience developing, deploying, supporting, or operating production applications or platform environments • Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, or Kubernetes-based environments • Strong Linux/Unix skills and ability to troubleshoot across application and platform layers • Experience with application architectures, source code, APIs, containers, runtime dependencies, or deployment requirements • Experience with YAML-based configuration such as Kubernetes manifests, Helm configuration, CRDs, or CI/CD pipelines • Familiarity with security practices related to applications, APIs, containers, cloud infrastructure, or vulnerability remediation • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and adapt to unfamiliar technologies and ambiguous technical problems • Ability to collaborate effectively with application, platform, and external teams • Eligible to apply for and maintain a U.S. government security clearance • Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II certification • Preferred: Deep expertise in full-stack application development, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, Tofu, AWS, Go, or related technologies • Preferred: Production experience with Kubernetes, including EKS, RKE2, or similar distributions • Preferred: Experience designing, implementing, integrating, or troubleshooting APIs and backend services • Preferred: Experience with C#/.NET, Python/FastAPI, React, Vue, or NGINX-hosted applications • Preferred: Experience with Helm, GitOps, observability, distributed architectures, security automation, or everything-as-code practices • Preferred: Experience mentoring and developing other engineers • Preferred: Active U.S. government security clearance and/or current DoD 8570 IAT II certification • Preferred: Department of Defense experience, particularly supporting a production ATO system • Preferred: Experience with UDS Core, Iron Bank, and/or C-ATO processes

🏖️ 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)