SkillBridge Intern - Platform Engineer

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

Demonstrated experience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and Docker.

Familiarity with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, systems, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services.

Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Ansible) and a basic understanding of shell scripting.

Experience with security automation and familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and Cloud Security.

Familiar with architecture security design, monitoring, and performance instrumentation in a complex enterprise environment.

Health:

Medical/Dental/Vision

Premiums are 100% Company Paid

Health Reimbursement Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Possessing strong proficiency with Kubernetes, the ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our platform, demonstrating a strong understanding of system architecture, problem-solving skills, and the ability to guide junior engineers.

As a Platform Engineer within our organization, you will join a team of dedicated unicorns who are focused on advancing freedom and independence globally.

We focus our Products on the Platform layer, but to deliver for our Heroes, we also work IaC automation, security, and implementation.

You will help us automate and build a runtime Production Environment and serve as a link between the Applications, either custom development, COTS, or OSS, and that environment, advocating best practices and facilitating communication between the application teams and platform teams.

Validate Solutions/Implementations:

Conduct thorough validations to maintain the integrity and efficiency of the platform.

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