Defense Unicorns
We help mission-focused heroes solve the world’s biggest software challenges.
Platform Engineer – IaC
Location
United States
Posted
22 days ago
Salary
$148.8K - $201.3K / year
Bachelor DegreeEnglishAWSAzureCloudKubernetesTerraform
Job Description
• Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules to reliably provision and configure customer environments.
• Support deploying and managing UDS environments across AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and on-prem for government-backed commercial vendors.
• Build and maintain custom UDS packages and application-specific modules, enabling streamlined deployment of customer environments.
• Adhere to SLA commitments, including on-call support for critical UDS issues in customer environments.
• Serve as the primary technical interface for System Integrators and mission heroes, providing guidance, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex UDS issues.
• Develop and deliver technical training content tailored to mission hero needs, including remote and on-site sessions demonstrating platform features and best practices.
• Coordinate customer onboarding and ensure smooth adoption of UDS deployments.
• Gather feedback from mission heroes and the community to provide actionable insights to internal teams, improving products, services, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for improvements to capabilities and strategies for improving deployment efficiency and customer outcomes.
• Analyze operational and usage data to identify trends, optimize delivery strategies, and drive process improvement.
• Experiment with new tools, techniques, and technologies to improve mission outcomes.
• Contribute to a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.
Job Requirements
- Possess strong proficiency with Terraform, Terraform Automation and COllaboration Software (TACOS), Kubernetes, Helm, and containerized applications, enabling robust platform deployment and management.
- Proven experience as a Platform Engineer or similar role, with a focus on system architecture and development.
- Strong knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures, including networking, RBAC, and storage for cloud and on-prem clusters.
- Hands-on experience with Azure AKS, AWS EKS, or on-prem Kubernetes (e.g RKE2, K3s, k0s, etc.).
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, OpenTofu), Helm, GitOps, and cluster provisioning and lifecycle management.
- Knowledgeable about DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines running on GitLab or GitHub.
- Comfortable serving as the primary technical interface for mission heroes, providing architecture guidance, production support, and platform expertise.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data for informed decision-making.
- Excellent communication skills and effectiveness in a remote team environment.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Willingness to travel as needed for on-site training and support.
- DoD IAT Level II certification (such as Security+) is not required but preferred.
- A DoD Secret or higher clearance is not required but preferred.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
- Paid Parental Leave