Platform Engineer: Cloud & Kubernetes, Remote US

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company stock options

Home office budget

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Defense Unicorns in the United States is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our remote US team. You will work with Kubernetes, cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), and IaC tooling to build and automate a production platform for government-focused workloads.

Responsibilities include validating solutions, solving problems independently, and collaborating with application teams. DoD security requirements and IAT II certification are preferred.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer with cloud-native tech.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with IaC and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Validate solutions/implementations align with business requirements.
• Independently solve problems and develop small components.
• Understand how medium-level tasks contribute to goals.
• Provide time/effort estimates for tasks.
• Demonstrate programming language proficiency and scripting.
• Bridge the gap between application development and production environments.

Skills

Cloud-native

Kubernetes mastery

CI/CD understanding

Programmatic scripting

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

Ansible

YAML

AWS

GCP

Azure

Helm/Kustomize

Job description

Defense Unicorns in the United States is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our remote US team. You will work with Kubernetes, cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), and IaC tooling to build and automate a production platform for government-focused workloads.

Responsibilities include validating solutions, solving problems independently, and collaborating with application teams. DoD security requirements and IAT II certification are preferred.