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Defense Unicorns

Platform Engineer

United States - Remote (Remote)From $166.8kfull-timemidAdded today

About this role

Defense Unicorns seeks a Platform Engineer to deploy and maintain UDS on secure bare-metal infrastructure. You'll bridge application teams and the platform, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability while working in a government contractor environment requiring U.S. citizenship.

What you'll do

  • Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot UDS and Kubernetes-based platform services in bare-metal environments
  • Design and manage infrastructure as code for consistent, repeatable deployments
  • Support bare-metal infrastructure architecture including GPU compute, storage, and networking
  • Enable secure software delivery through container images, registries, and deployment artifacts
  • Troubleshoot and resolve platform challenges collaborating with mission stakeholders and engineering teams
  • Manage Kubernetes cluster operations, workload deployment, and infrastructure troubleshooting

What they're looking for

  • Kubernetes deployment and cluster management
  • Bare-metal or on-premises infrastructure administration
  • Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • GitLab CI or equivalent CI/CD platforms
  • Linux/Unix command-line administration
  • YAML proficiency for Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts
  • AWS cloud services (EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, VPC)
  • GPU infrastructure support
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Defense Unicorns

Defense Unicorns builds software platforms and infrastructure services for defense and government customers, including containerized applications, package management systems, and Kubernetes-based deployment environments for disconnected or hybrid cloud settings. The company is hiring software engineers, platform engineers, technical writers, and military SkillBridge interns to develop, deploy, and support these mission-critical systems.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe your experience deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters in bare-metal or on-premises environments—what challenges did you face and how did you resolve them?
  • How have you used infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Pulumi to manage complex platform deployments?
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