Senior Platform Engineer: Remote Kubernetes & Cloud

Defense Unicorns; United States; Remote; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k

Stock options

Home office budget

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our team. You will focus on building and maintaining a Kubernetes-driven platform, guiding junior engineers, and aligning solutions with business needs across applications and production environments.

You will automate the runtime environment, apply IaC practices, and work within an Agile, remote team. Strong cloud-native experience, scripting, and security automation are essential in a DoD context with high security requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience as Platform Engineer focused on system architecture and development.
• Cloud-native tech: Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Docker.
• Proficiency in at least one language (Python/Go/Ansible) and shell basics.

Responsibilities

• Bridge Application Development and Production Environment.
• Automate runtime production environment and ensure best practices.
• Contribute to security automation and CI/CD processes.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Python

Go

Ansible

Shell scripting

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GitOps

Jenkins

Kubectl

Job description

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our team. You will focus on building and maintaining a Kubernetes-driven platform, guiding junior engineers, and aligning solutions with business needs across applications and production environments.

You will automate the runtime environment, apply IaC practices, and work within an Agile, remote team. Strong cloud-native experience, scripting, and security automation are essential in a DoD context with high security requirements.