
Infrastructure Engineer – Bare Metal Kubernetes
Defense Unicorns
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $148,750 - $201,250 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Work in a small, dedicated team architecting US Navy enterprise systems.
- Collaborate with other teams to integrate applications with Defense Unicorns’ software delivery platform.
- Help build pipelines that automate testing, building, packaging, and deploying platform components.
- Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code to create standardized, reusable modules that automate provisioning across diverse hypervisors and cloud platforms.
- Provide grounded time and effort estimates for tasks. Assist in project planning and resource allocation based on estimated timelines.
- Validate Solutions/Implementations: Ensure that solutions and implementations align with the outlined tasks and business requirements.
- Rapidly understand customer mission requirements, conceptualize and prototype solutions, and rapidly iterate to deliver impact.
- Author and maintain technical design documents, architecture decision records (ADRs), and test plans.
Requirements
- An Active Secret Clearance is required for this position.
- Strong proficiency with bare-metal Kubernetes (RKE2, K3D / K3S, EKS-D).
- Familiarity with continuous delivery, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services.
- Proficiency in at least one language (Python, Go) and Linux/Unix (Ubuntu, RHEL).
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/HCL, YAML, Bash) and automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes networking, service meshes (Istio), ingress/egress controllers (metallb, nginx).
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Promtail).
- Security and compliance practices: runtime security (Neuvector), policy enforcement (Kyverno, Pepr).
- Ability to produce technical design docs, ADRs, and test plans.
- Excellent communication skills and cross-team collaboration.
- Proficiency with GitHub and GitLab.
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
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
- Paid Parental Leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesPythonGoLinuxInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaNeuvector
Soft Skills
communicationcross-team collaborationproject planningresource allocationtime estimationsolution validationcustomer requirement understandingtechnical documentation
Certifications
Active Secret Clearance