Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Cloud Automation

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a Platform Engineer to join a remote-friendly team building and maintaining a production-ready platform. Strong Kubernetes skills, cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure), and IaC automation are essential as you bridge application development with production environments.

You will work on IaC, security automation, and CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with cross-functional teams. DoD-related work and clearance considerations apply, with a focus on secure, scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• Proficient with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and Docker.
• Familiar with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Ansible) and shell scripting.
• Proficient with YAML.
• DoD 8570 IAT II certification is preferred; security clearances may be required.
• Active Secret clearance or higher is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Automate and build a runtime Production Environment, serving as a bridge between Applications and the Production Environment.
• Validate solutions and implementations to align with tasks and business requirements.
• Independently solve problems and develop small components.
• Understand medium-level tasks and collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate components.
• Estimate time and effort for medium-sized tasks and support project planning.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Ansible

YAML

Shell scripting

CI/CD

GitOps

Communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Pulumi

Google Cloud

AWS/Azure

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks a Platform Engineer to join a remote-friendly team building and maintaining a production-ready platform. Strong Kubernetes skills, cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure), and IaC automation are essential as you bridge application development with production environments.

You will work on IaC, security automation, and CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with cross-functional teams. DoD-related work and clearance considerations apply, with a focus on secure, scalable platforms.