Platform Engineer

🕒 August 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $123.3k - $166.8k / 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

• Build, maintain, and improve Kubernetes clusters and containerized application deployments across AWS, EKS, and RKE2 • Develop and manage infrastructure as code to provision and configure platform resources • Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, including GitLab CI configuration, runner deployments, and automated build and deployment workflows • Support identity and access management using tools such as Keycloak • Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging for platform health and incident investigation • Manage certificate lifecycle operations, including public certificate renewal and automation • Contribute to platform security through container security practices, Iron Bank image compliance, and ATO support • Collaborate with application teams to troubleshoot deployment, pipeline, and platform integration issues • Write and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, ADRs, and operational standards • Contribute to strategic planning aligned with mission objectives • Participate in on-call rotations and support tier 2 platform incidents • Mentor junior engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and workloads • Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar • Proficiency with CI/CD tooling, particularly GitLab CI or equivalent pipeline platforms • Working knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems and command-line administration • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, and VPC • Familiarity with containerization, Docker, container image builds, and registry management • Ability to read and write YAML for Kubernetes manifests, CRDs, Helm charts, and pipeline configurations • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment • U.S. citizenship required • Must be eligible for CUI access • Possess or ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II certification, such as Security+ CE • Preferred: security clearance eligibility; UDS Core, Iron Bank, C-ATO, Keycloak, monitoring/observability, Go/Python/Bash, DevSecOps, GitOps, Department of Defense production ATO systems, distributed architectures, AWS certifications, ADRs, runbooks, or engineering standards

🏖️ 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)