Platform Engineer - Army (FedD151/FedD168)

Proven experience as a Platform Engineer or similar role, with a focus on system architecture and development.

Strong knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures, including networking, RBAC, and storage for cloud and on-prem clusters.

Hands-on experience with Azure AKS, AWS EKS, or on-perm Kubernetes (e.g RKE2, K3s, OpenShift).

Experience with Helm, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, OpenTofu) for infrastructure, cluster provisioning and lifecycle management.

Knowledgeable about DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD pipelines running on GitLab or GitHub.

Comfortable serving as the primary technical interface for customers, providing architecture guidance, production support, and platform expertise.

Health:

Medical/Dental/Vision

Premiums are 100% Company Paid

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Possess strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Helm, and containerized applications, enabling robust platform deployment and management.

Deploy and manage UDS environments across AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and on-prem for government-backed commercial vendors.

Build and maintain custom UDS packages and application-specific modules, enabling streamlined deployment of customer environments.

Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules to reliably provision and configure customer environments.

Adhere to SLA commitments, including on-call support for critical UDS issues in customer environments.

Serve as the primary technical interface for customers, providing guidance, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex UDS issues.

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

What We Do

We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Who We Serve

Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

What We Work On