Platform Engineer, Defense Unicorns
$132.3-171.5k
+ Company Stock Options
Software for national security systems
Posted today
Software for national security systems
101-200 employees
Posted today
$132.3-171.5k
+ Company Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create software to solve the unique challenges experienced by the government.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a Platform Engineer or similar role, with a focus on cloud infrastructure (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (i.e. Terraform/OpenTofu, Spacelift)
- Demonstrated experience with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, and Docker
- Familiarity with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, systems, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Ansible) and the Linux/Unix operating systems
- Experienced in working on a team following an Agile framework in a remote environment
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Experience with security automation and familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and Cloud Security
- Familiar with architecture security design, monitoring, and performance instrumentation in a complex enterprise environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented and experienced Platform Engineer to join our UDS Operations team
- The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure, demonstrating a strong understanding of system architecture and problem-solving skills, as well as having Infrastructure as Code experience
- As a Mid-Level Platform Engineer within our organization, you will join a team of dedicated unicorns who are focused on advancing freedom and independence globally
- Our teams work on various different technical baselines depending on specific engagements
- We focus our Products on the cloud infrastructure layer, but to deliver for our Heroes, we also work IaC automation, security, and implementation
- You will help us build, automate, and maintain Production Environments and Enterprise IaC modules and serve as a link between the Applications, either custom development, COTS, or OSS, and that environment, advocating best practices and facilitating communication between the application teams and platform teams
- Ensure that solutions and implementations align with the outlined tasks and business requirements
- Conduct thorough validations to maintain the integrity and efficiency of the platform
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and solve business problems independently
- Develop small components to address specific challenges without relying on explicit architecture diagrams
- Provide grounded time and effort estimates for medium-sized tasks
- Assist in project planning and resource allocation based on estimated timelines
- Build and maintain automated pipeline functions, leading teams towards delivery and sustainment options
- Contribute to the build and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure as well as our Enterprise IaC modules
- Create and maintain operational runbooks and alerts, ensuring API orchestration and cyber-secure approaches
- We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery
- Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners
- Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily
- Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products
- What We Work On:
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
- Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
- Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
- GitOps
- Containers
- CNCF projects and open source products and packages
- Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
- Building and improving security delivery
- Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications
Our take
Military defence technology is having to adapt at a quickening pace. However, innovations in the tech sector, outdated technology, varied compute environments and complex security and compliance issues create lags in new defence technology. Defense Unicorns is an open-source tech developer aiming to minimise this lag.
Founded by former Department of Defense software engineers, Defense Unicorns uses AI and innovative software to create military technology for various uses and combat landscapes. The company is particularly focused on tech that can be used in “air-gapped” areas - those that are disconnected from the internet.
In terms of the company's future position in the market, it's notable that the US annual defence budget specifically for IT and cyber has increased to just under $59 billion in 2024. This funding growth exemplifies a rapidly changing combat landscape set against an unpredictable global backdrop, one in which Defense Unicorns has the chance to be an important player.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2024
$35m
SERIES A
Oct 2022
$0.5m
SEED
Total funding: $35.5m
Company benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision (premiums are 100% company paid)
- Health reimbursement account
- Life insurance & disability insurance
- 401k with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)
- Company stock options
- Home office setup budget
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Company HQ
Southeast Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
Leadership
Robert Slaughter
(Co-Founder & CEO)Works as a Trainer at Project Blue. Previously the Director of DoD Platform One, a Counselor at SpaceCAMP, and worked in DevOps for the US Airforce.
Andrew Greene
(Co-Founder & Engineer)Previously worked for DoD Platform One. Was also a Software Engineer at Omitron and at SGT.
Jeff McCoy
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder and CTO at Platform One, Was also CTO at SpaceCAMP, Senior Software Engineer at Defense Innovation Unit, and Co-Founder at DDS Rogue Squadron.
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