Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to join a team of dedicated unicorns advancing freedom and independence globally. The role involves building and sustaining a self-managed production environment and contributing to the growth of Defense Unicorns' capabilities and open source products.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience operating production cloud-native systems within the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Proficiency in IaC, particularly Terraform or OpenTofu
- Experience with automation in Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages
- Experience with CI/CD methodologies and systems such as GitLab Runners or GitHub Actions
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments
- Experience building and operating observability platforms, particularly those built on OpenSearch/ELK, Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana
- Understanding of NIST 800-171/800-53 and FedRAMP requirements
- Experience in an on-call capacity for platform reliability; ability to monitor, improve, and restore operations within a DevSecOps team
Benefits
- Health: Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Financial: 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- Leave: Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Learning: Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)