SkillBridge Intern - Platform Engineer
Defense Unicorns4 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 specializes in platform technologies that enable rapid and reliable delivery of capabilities across a wide range of mission and technology areas. We support open architecture platforms for secure mission systems that provide optionality for the end user, promote scalability, and allow for continuous identification and integration of new products and services while avoiding vendor lock. Our open approach creates partnership opportunities across the software ecosystem. Our people are innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across DoW and the broader federal market. Let's drive change together. Get in touch at hello@defenseunicorns.com