SkillBridge Intern - Platform Engineer
Defense Unicorns6 months ago
Remote, United StatesIntern
Responsibilities
- Transform cybersecurity applications into Kubernetes-friendly formats and deploy them in Kubernetes environments hosted on bare-metal platforms.
- Bridge application development and production environments by advocating best practices and facilitating communication between application and platform teams.
- Contribute to long-term product vision, strategic planning, and mission-aligned technology evolution.
- Evaluate products and solution methods, identify process gaps, and contribute insights to the product backlog.
- Solve highly technical problems spanning multiple knowledge domains.
- Contribute to open source projects and product repositories.
- Work with Kubernetes, cloud environments, infrastructure-as-code, continuous delivery automation, GitOps, containers, CNCF projects, Helm, Kustomize, value stream mapping, and cloud-native applications.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Eligible Service members must be within 180 days of separating from Service.
- Hold or be eligible to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.
- Demonstrate experience contributing to product vision, evaluating solutions, identifying process gaps, and solving complex technical and business problems.
- Have active participation in open source projects and product repositories.
- Possess deep knowledge of one or two technologies such as pipelines, GitOps, Kubernetes, or Go.
- Preferred experience includes Department of Defense work on an Authority to Operate system, DoD Weapon Systems, Program Management Offices, Cyberspace Operations or Incident Response systems, Big Bang, Iron Bank, and C-ATO processes.
- Possess a DoD 8570 IAT II certification.
- Know DevSecOps, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Cybersecurity as Code, automated testing, and compliance-oriented project practices.
- Have experience with Kubernetes deployment and security, hardware, full-stack development, application transformation, Python, Go, Ansible, and YAML.
- Be comfortable working on a team following an Agile framework.
Benefits
- Remote work capacity.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with premiums 100% company paid.
- Health Reimbursement Account, life insurance, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and home office budget.
- Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, Thanksgiving week, and Christmas/New Year’s break for full-time employees.
- Paid parental leave.
- Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions, plus conference travel, lodging, and fees.
- SkillBridge opportunities are recruited on a rolling basis; eligible service members must be within 180 days of separating from Service.
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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.