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Salary: USD 123,250 - 166,750 / annual
Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to support the deployment and maintenance of UDS (Unicorn Delivery Service) within secure, bare-metal environments. You will serve as a bridge between application teams and the platform, advocating best practices and ensuring the platform is reliable, secure, and scalable.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support architecture, deployment, configuration, and testing of bare-metal infrastructure, including GPU compute, storage, and networking
- Deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot UDS and Kubernetes-based platform services
- Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration to enable consistent, repeatable deployments
- Support secure software delivery, including container images, registries, packages, and deployment artifacts
- Collaborate with mission stakeholders, partner organizations, and Defense Unicorns engineering teams to identify technical requirements and resolve deployment challenges
The ideal candidate is a strong problem-solver with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, bare-metal or on-premises infrastructure, and deploying applications onto Kubernetes-based platforms. Preferred qualifications include active Secret/Top Secret security clearance, experience deploying and operating Kubernetes in bare-metal environments, infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Pulumi), CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI), Linux/Unix administration, AWS experience (EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, VPC), GPU-enabled infrastructure support, YAML fluency for Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts, and ability to obtain DoD 8570 IAT II certification (Security+ CE).
Travel expectations: 10-15%. This position requires U.S. citizenship and is a contractor role for the U.S. government.
