Defense Unicorns

Infrastructure Engineer, Bare Metal Kubernetes

Defense Unicorns

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $148,750 - $201,250 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxNGINXOpen SourcePrometheusPythonTerraformUnix

About the role

  • Work in a small, dedicated team architecting US Navy enterprise systems
  • Conceptualize, architect, prototype, and test Kubernetes on bare metal infrastructure
  • 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 and assist in project planning and resource allocation
  • Validate solutions/implementations to ensure alignment with 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, ADRs, and test plans

Requirements

  • An Active Secret Clearance is required for this position.
  • Experience with deploying and operating Kubernetes on bare metal systems
  • Experience using Infrastructure-as-Code to configure on-prem hardware
  • Strong understanding of system architecture, problem-finding and problem-solving skills
  • Bonus points for experience in the Navy domain
  • 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