Remote Platform Engineer - Kubernetes, CI/CD, Secret Clearance

Defense Unicorns; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premiums fully paid by company

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a Platform Engineer to join a cloud-focused platform team handling DevOps and SRE duties. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, IaC, and CI/CD across AWS, with emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability. A DoD-friendly, secure coding mindset is essential.

The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, on-call rotations, and documentation of standards and runbooks. US citizenship and active security considerations are required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Kubernetes deployment, management, and troubleshooting.
• IaC experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling, notably GitLab CI.
• Linux/Unix mastery and CLI skills.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, VPC).
• Familiarity with containerization and registries (Docker).
• Fluent YAML for manifests, CRDs, Helm charts, and pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving in remote, asynchronous environments.
• US citizenship required; eligible for CUI access.
• DoD 8570 IAT II certification (e.g., Security+ CE).

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code to provision resources.
• Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI).
• Support identity and access management via Keycloak.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for platform health.
• Manage certificate lifecycle and automation.
• Contribute to platform security posture and ATO support.
• Collaborate with application teams on deployment issues and integration.
• Write and maintain runbooks, ADRs, and operational standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform / Pulumi)

GitLab CI

Linux administration

AWS

Docker

YAML

On-call

US citizenship

DoD 8570 IAT II

Tools

Keycloak

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

CI/CD tooling

GitOps tooling (Flux/ArgoCD)

Job description

Defense Unicorns seeks a Platform Engineer to join a cloud-focused platform team handling DevOps and SRE duties. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, IaC, and CI/CD across AWS, with emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability. A DoD-friendly, secure coding mindset is essential.

The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, on-call rotations, and documentation of standards and runbooks. US citizenship and active security considerations are required.