Senior Solutions Architect
Defense Unicorns6 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$149k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact and trusted advisor for customers.
- Lead, mentor, and develop engineers supporting customer engagements.
- Support discovery, framing, demonstrations, content creation, and solution architecture activities.
- Manage proof-of-concept work and identify process improvements.
- Build and maintain continuous-delivery pipelines.
- Build, deploy, test, and troubleshoot UDS Bundles, Zarf packages, and UDS packages.
- Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and growth-oriented experimentation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on research, brainstorming, and technical innovation.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and Secret security clearance are required.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience and 1+ years of management experience.
- 4+ years of experience with full-stack development teams.
- 5+ years of experience with defense-based customer-facing interactions and engagements.
- Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, and container orchestration.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and containers.
- Knowledge of the CNCF ecosystem and tooling.
- Knowledge of cloud and on-premises system architecture.
- Ability to architect solutions from customer requirements and clearly articulate them.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and JavaScript, plus familiarity with web technologies.
- Experience with full-stack development, training, mentoring, and leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, collaboration, negotiation, and independent-working skills.
Benefits
- Remote work in the USA with 25% travel.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with company-paid premiums.
- Health savings account, life insurance, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and a home office budget.
- Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s.
- Paid parental leave.
- Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions, plus conference travel, lodging, and fees.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Defense Unicorns
Defense Unicorns builds platform software and services that streamline secure, cloud-native delivery for defense and federal programs, with emphasis on DevSecOps, Kubernetes, and air‑gapped environments. It provides software and professional services under government contracts to deploy open-architecture platforms and CI/CD pipelines across classified and disconnected systems. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, the privately held company serves U.S. defense and national security agencies.