Defense Unicorns
Staff Platform Engineer
Remote, United States · Staff+ · Contract
No sponsorshipDetected 12 days ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityComplianceAgileLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
- THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE AN ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE TO APPLY.
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role.
Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain scalable runtime production environments across cloud-native and containerized systems, including transforming applications into Kubernetes-friendly formats for bare-metal deployment
- Own the technical roadmap for the platform vertical, identifying gaps, planning initiatives, and aligning engineering effort to mission objectives
- Collaborate with product teams, providing feedback on product fit and contributing to product direction based on production usage
- Drive continuous improvement in CI/CD pipelines, deployment patterns, and operational tooling
- You will drive platform architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and serve as the technical anchor between application teams and platform teams.
Requirements
- Expertise in solving highly technical problems that span multiple knowledge domains
- Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes and container-based systems
- Experience with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services
- Proven track record of evaluating and selecting optimal methods for solving complex business problems
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
Nice to have
- DoD 8570 IAT II certification or ability to obtain
- Experience in Department of Defense work, specifically on a production ATO system
- Experience with Big Bang, Iron Bank, and/or C-ATO processes
- Expert in DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD theory and implementation
- The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization.
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
Skills
- Provide mentorship to engineers across the team, fostering professional development and raising the technical bar
- Identify technical overlap across projects and guide teams on leveraging each other for efficient delivery
- Work closely with Mission Managers, providing insights on engineering competency, capacity, velocity, and alignment with mission objectives
- Advocate for and enforce DevSecOps practices across the platform layer, including security automation, container security, and compliance
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
- 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. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.
- What We Do
- We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.
- Who We Serve
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- Containers
- Building and improving security delivery
- Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges.
Visa & Work Authorization
- US citizenship and eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance
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