Remote Platform Engineer - Kubernetes on Bare-Metal Gov Missions

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote in US

Health coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Company stock options

Home office budget

Flexible PTO and holidays

Training reimbursement

Job summary

defenseunicorns in the United States seeks a Platform Engineer to deploy and maintain a Kubernetes-based platform in a secure, bare-metal environment serving U.S. government missions. This hands-on role requires U.S.

citizenship, roughly 15–25% travel, and a valid government security clearance. You will architect bare-metal infrastructure, deploy Kubernetes services, and build repeatable IaC assets with Terraform or Pulumi.

Qualifications

• Eligibility to hold a U.S. government security clearance.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating Kubernetes in bare-metal or on-premises environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or comparable offerings.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling, ideally GitLab CI or an equivalent pipeline platform.
• Fluency reading and writing YAML for Kubernetes manifests, CRDs, Helm charts, and pipeline definitions.
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II certification (for example, Security+ CE).

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, configure, and test bare-metal infrastructure spanning GPU compute, storage, and networking components.
• Deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Kubernetes-based platform services and supporting workloads.
• Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code and configuration assets that enable consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Support secure software delivery pipelines, including container images, registries, packaged artifacts, and deployment outputs.
• Collaborate with mission stakeholders, partner organizations, and internal engineering teams to surface requirements and resolve deployment or platform challenges.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Linux/Unix

YAML

Security clearance eligibility

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GitLab CI

Helm

Job description

defenseunicorns in the United States seeks a Platform Engineer to deploy and maintain a Kubernetes-based platform in a secure, bare-metal environment serving U.S. government missions. This hands-on role requires U.S.

citizenship, roughly 15–25% travel, and a valid government security clearance. You will architect bare-metal infrastructure, deploy Kubernetes services, and build repeatable IaC assets with Terraform or Pulumi.