Platform Engineer

**We are a 100% remote company** 

Who We Are: Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

What We Do: 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.

Who We Serve: 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 You Could Be Responsible For:

• Own the bridge between App Dev team and Production Environment
  • Establish "best practices" with app dev team
  • Interact between app dev team and platform team
  • Facilitate and establish automated Zarf builds as part of CI for multiple app dev teams
  • Interact with Platform team on E2E and Integration testing
  • Lead tradeoff discussions on benefits of using cyber-secure tools
• CI/CD and other automation experience
  • Ability to build-in automated pipeline functions
  • Propensity to lead teams towards easier delivery/sustainment options
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code
  • Provide value-add contributions to build/maintenance of EKS & RKE2 instantiations
• Creating and maintaining operational runbooks and alerts
• API orchestration
• Plan and execute paths for customers to adopt and impelement cyber-secure approaches.
• Help advise and drive those decisions as well as experiment with the latest tech in the platform engineering space.
• Communicate your work to domain and non-domain experts through your writing, presentations, and training sessions.
• You'll be expected to assist in developing an automated security framework for robust deployment tools and processes, leveraging various scripting languages and open source solutions

Qualifications for an Ideal Candidate May Include:

• Familiar with the DevSecOps manifest
• Experience with security automation (preferred)
• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, AWS Cloud Security
• Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standard: (e.g. ISO/IEC 27001:2013, CSA CCM, NIST CSF, HMG SPF and Cyber Essentials)
• Firm grasp of AWS cloud infrastructure design, aligning security, performance, and resilience.
• You'll have implemented and tested security policies and have a working knowledge of commonly used web infrastructure and tools.
• You'll have experience in architecture security design, monitoring and performance instrumentation in a complex enterprise environment.
• Experience on subjects like continuous delivery, distributed architectures and systems, everything-as-code, containerisation and cloud services.
• Comfort debugging systems and reading/writing code
• Understanding of Incident, Problem, Change and Release management processes
• Familiarity with cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and Docker
• Extensive experience with cloud deployments
• Knowledge of secure coding practices including OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
• Strong programming chops and deep familiarity with Linux/Unix operating systems
• Solid interpersonal skills and a desire to improve developer experience across vendor teams
• The selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background check (“CBI”) and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret-level DoD security clearance (Top Secret preferred).

Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy:

Health:

• Medical/Dental/Vision
  • Premiums are 100% Company Paid
  • Health Reimbursement Account
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance

Financial:

• Annual Salary Range: $150,000 to $170,000
• 401k with Employer Contribution (Regardless of Employee Contribution)
• Company Stock Options
• Home Office Setup Budget

Leave:

• 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

Learning:

• Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
• Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Salary : $150,000 - $170,000