Platform Engineer, SkillBridge — Remote

Defense Unicorns; United States; Remote; USD 45,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Company-Paid Health

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a Platform Engineer SkillBridge intern to transform cybersecurity applications into a Kubernetes-friendly format and deploy them on a bare-metal Kubernetes platform. This remote internship bridges development and production teams and contributes to our product roadmap.

You will work with experts to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and automation, while pursuing DoD-relevant, mission-critical software.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or holding an IT/CS degree or equivalent.
• Top Secret security clearance or eligibility for DoD work.
• Active involvement in open source projects or product repositories.

Responsibilities

• Transform cybersecurity applications into a Kubernetes-friendly format and deploy them within a Kubernetes environment on bare‑metal.
• Serve as a liaison between Application Development and Production environments, promoting best practices.
• Contribute to strategic vision and evaluate new products; articulate gaps for the backlog.
• Demonstrate mastery across multiple domains and 1–2 core technologies (e.g., pipelines, GitOps, Kubernetes, Go).

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

CI/CD

GitOps

Python

Ansible

YAML

IaC

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks a Platform Engineer SkillBridge intern to transform cybersecurity applications into a Kubernetes-friendly format and deploy them on a bare-metal Kubernetes platform. This remote internship bridges development and production teams and contributes to our product roadmap.

You will work with experts to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and automation, while pursuing DoD-relevant, mission-critical software.