Kubernetes Engineer Jobs

*This is a fully remote position*

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 We Work On:

• Kubernetes
• Containers
• Building and improving security delivery
• CNCF projects and open source products and packages
• Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
• GitOps
• Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
• Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
• Continuous Delivery and automation tooling

What You Could Be Responsible For:

• Migration of legacy applications to AWS or Kubernetes environments and integration with service mesh, security, policy and observability tooling
• Instrumenting observability stacks for centralized management of multi-cluster environments
• Being interactive and engaged in an all-remote environment
• Building and maintaining DevSecOps tooling for Kubernetes workloads (CI/CD, IaC, GitOps, pipelines, automation tools, etc)
• Collaborating with a diverse team of engineers responsible for delivering and maintaining applications in production

Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy:

Health:

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

Financial:

• 401k with Employer Contribution (Regardless of Employee Contribution)
• Annual Salary Range: $152,500 - $204,250
• Home Office Setup Budget
• Company Stock Options

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:

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

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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