Defense Unicorns

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

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)
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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