Staff Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & DevSecOps Lead

Defense Unicorns, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health premiums paid by company

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock Options

Home Office Budget

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Defense Unicorns, Inc. is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design, build, and own the runtime production environment bridging applications to the platform.

This hands-on technical leadership role defines technical roadmaps, drives cross-team delivery, and mentors engineers. You will transform applications into Kubernetes-friendly formats, guide platform strategy, collaborate with product teams, and enforce DevSecOps, security automation, and compliant practices across cloud-native

Qualifications

• Experience solving highly technical problems spanning multiple knowledge domains.
• Strong Kubernetes and container-based systems knowledge.
• Experience with continuous delivery and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain scalable runtime production environments across cloud-native and containerized systems.
• Own the technical roadmap for the platform vertical, aligning engineering effort to mission objectives.
• Provide mentorship to engineers across the team and drive cross-team delivery efficiency.
• Collaborate with product teams and customers to define technical roadmaps that align to mission objectives.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

GitOps

Pipelines

CI/CD

YAML

Security automation

API Security

Container Security

Cloud security

Education

DoD 8570 IAT II certification

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Defense Unicorns, Inc. is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design, build, and own the runtime production environment bridging applications to the platform.

This hands-on technical leadership role defines technical roadmaps, drives cross-team delivery, and mentors engineers. You will transform applications into Kubernetes-friendly formats, guide platform strategy, collaborate with product teams, and enforce DevSecOps, security automation, and compliant practices across cloud-native