Platform Engineer - Navy (FedD174/FedD175)
Defense Unicorns2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$149k - $201k/yr
Responsibilities
- Evaluate complex technical problems and select innovative and effective solutions.
- Serve as the link between custom, COTS, or OSS applications and the Navy platform environment.
- Develop and maintain platform systems, CI/CD components, runner deployments, UDS packaging, and process automation.
- Implement infrastructure as code and build or maintain Kubernetes clusters across distributions including EKS and RKE2.
- Apply cloud-native deployment practices, secure coding, security automation, and vulnerability remediation.
- Contribute to platform architecture, strategic planning, monitoring, performance instrumentation, and product decisions.
- Collaborate with application teams, platform teams, and external partners while advocating engineering best practices.
- Guide, mentor, and support other engineers through technical leadership, pairing, and code reviews.
Requirements
- Active Secret clearance or eligibility to obtain a security clearance.
- Strong programming skills and deep familiarity with Linux/Unix operating systems.
- Expertise in solving complex technical problems across multiple knowledge domains.
- Deep proficiency in one or two key technologies such as full-stack application development, GitOps, Kubernetes, Tofu, AWS, or Go.
- Experience creating Kubernetes manifests, Kubernetes CRDs, and pipeline configurations with YAML.
- Proficiency in security automation, API Security, Container Security, and Cloud Security.
- Experience with architecture security design, monitoring, and performance instrumentation in complex enterprise environments.
- Experience with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services.
- Experience working remotely on a team following an Agile framework and ability to lead a team as required.
- Ability to identify process gaps, work independently, make technical decisions, and evaluate new products against mission objectives.
- Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers through pairing and code reviews.
- Possess or be able to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II certification.
- Experience with Department of Defense work, including a production Authority to Operate system.
- Experience with UDS Core, Iron Bank, and/or C-ATO processes.
Benefits
- Remote - USA work arrangement.
- Travel expected 4-12 times per year.
- 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, 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.
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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