Platform Engineer (FedD200/ FedD201/ FedD202)
Defense Unicorns4 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$123k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Act as the link between custom, commercial, or open-source applications and the Navy platform environment.
- Help application teams integrate, package, secure, deploy, and operate software on UDS and Kubernetes-based environments.
- Evaluate solutions to complex technical problems spanning multiple technical domains.
- Implement infrastructure as code and contribute to building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
- Support cloud-native deployments, secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, CI/CD components, runner deployments, observability, and process automation.
- Troubleshoot application and platform issues involving source code, APIs, containers, runtime dependencies, and deployment requirements.
- Collaborate with application teams, platform teams, external teams, and other stakeholders.
- Mentor and develop engineers through pairing, technical guidance, or code reviews.
Requirements
- Professional experience developing, deploying, supporting, or operating production applications or platform environments.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, containers, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes-based environments, or related deployment systems.
- Strong Linux/Unix skills and ability to troubleshoot across application and platform layers.
- Experience with application architectures, source code, APIs, containers, runtime dependencies, or deployment requirements.
- Experience with YAML-based configuration, including Kubernetes manifests, Helm configuration, CRDs, or deployment pipelines.
- Familiarity with application, API, container, and cloud-infrastructure security practices and vulnerability remediation.
- Strong problem-solving, independent-work, collaboration, and adaptability skills.
- Eligibility to apply for and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
- Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II certification.
- Preferred: expertise in full-stack application development, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, Tofu, AWS, Go, or related technologies.
- Preferred: production Kubernetes experience with EKS, RKE2, or similar distributions and experience with APIs and backend services.
- Preferred: experience with C#/.NET, Python/FastAPI, React, Vue, or NGINX-hosted applications.
- Preferred: experience with Helm, GitOps, observability, distributed architectures, security automation, or everything-as-code practices.
- Preferred: active U.S. government clearance or current DoD 8570 IAT II certification, Department of Defense experience, production ATO systems, UDS Core, Iron Bank, or C-ATO processes.
Benefits
- Remote position in the USA.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with premiums 100% company paid.
- Health savings 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 holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions.
- Conference support including travel, lodging, and fees.
- Expected travel 4–12 times per year.
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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