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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

• Designing and operating always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access • Building feature branch / preview environments to support UX and rapid feedback loops • Enabling internal dogfooding through real, long-running deployments of UDS products • Integrating core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services • Reducing reliance on local environments by creating shared, reproducible infrastructure • Supporting pathways toward self-service demo and trial environments • Improve system reliability by enabling continuous, real-world usage and validation • Partnering with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering • Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems • Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments • Proficiency with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, etc.) • Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment pipelines • Experience integrating distributed systems across multiple services • Comfortable working across system boundaries (application, infrastructure, networking) • Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and UX

🏖️ 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