Defense Unicorns
Mission Manager
United States - Remote · Contract
No sponsorship$118k-$160kDetected 47 days ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDComplianceProcurementRecruitingMentoring
About the role
- As a Mission Manager for within the Air & Space Forces domain, you will collaborate with DAF Tech Lead and Fleet Tech Lead to establish technical roadmap for Mission outcomes with Mission Heroes, and facilitate feedback from Delivery to Product.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with Domain Tech Lead and Vertical Tech Lead to establish technical roadmap for Mission Outcomes with Mission Heroes
- Aligns Defense Unicorns' Product Roadmaps to technical roadmap for your Hero and provides feedback to Product segment on Mission Need dates for features to drive adoption
- Work with Tech Leads to established an aligned Delivery roadmap, using Product roadmaps
- Follow company best practices in strategies for building Delivery solutions
- Proficient in translating pain points to root cause problems and working with engineers to build a roadmap for value delivery
- Proficient in modern software development processes and practices, including DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, and User-Centered Design
Nice to have
- Experience managing cross functional engineering teams
- Skilled in expectation management across different personas
- Experience and passion for software delivery for Mission Success within the tech industry or Department of Defense
- Familiarity with federal government contracts, procurement vehicles, and budget process
- Exhibit enough technical depth to understand architectural decisions and translate in a way that stakeholders, users, and the team can understand and be aligned on
- The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization.
- Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience.
- Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.
Compensation
- 4-12 times per year
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year's
- Paid Parental Leave
Company info
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
- GitOps
- Containers
- CNCF projects and open source products and packages
- Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
- Building and improving security delivery
- Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges.
- We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation.
- Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security.
- We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery.
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