**This is a fully remote position**

Role Description:

We are seeking a talented and experienced Mid-Level Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of our production environments, demonstrating a strong understanding of system architecture, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work autonomously.

As a Mid-Level Cloud Infrastructure engineer, you will join a team of dedicated unicorns who are focused on advancing freedom and independence globally. Our team is working on architecting, building, and deploying a platform for hosting software development environments, artificial intelligence applications and future capabilities.

Responsibilities:

In this role, your primary responsibilities will include deploying and maintaining infrastructure by managing the deployments from source to environment reliably and efficiently. You will be a crucial link between the platform development team and our internal production environment, advocating best practices and facilitating communication between the platform development teams and internal customers. You will be expected to engage with our internal product teams to solve platform related problems when it comes to those apps.

In this position, you will be expected to:

Validate Solutions/Implementations: Ensure that solutions and implementations align with the outlined tasks and business requirements. Conduct thorough validations to maintain the integrity and efficiency of the platform.
Independently Problem Solve: Demonstrate the ability to identify and solve business problems independently. Develop small components to address specific challenges without relying on explicit architecture diagrams.
Understand Medium-Level Tasking: Comprehend how tasks contribute to the achievement of overall goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate various components into a cohesive and functional platform.
Estimate Time and Effort: Provide accurate time and effort estimates for tasks. Assist in project planning and resource allocation based on estimated timelines.
Demonstrate Programming Language Proficiency: Possess familiarity with at least one programming language. Exhibit a basic understanding of when to use a programming language versus a script for efficient task execution.
Contribute to CI/CD and other automation experiences: Build and maintain automated pipeline functions, leading teams towards delivery and sustainment options.
Implement Infrastructure as Code: Contribute to the build/maintenance of EKS & RKE2 instantiations. Ability to write and understand Terraform/OpenTofu, Packer, Ansible, etc.
Apply Cloud Deployments: Extensive experience deploying cloud environments emphasizing secure coding practices and vulnerability remediation.

Travel Expectations: 5-10%

The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:

3-6 years experience with software/infrastructure/platform engineering
Proven experience as a cloud infrastructure engineer, infrastructure engineer, cloud engineer, systems engineer, systems development engineer, platform engineer, site reliability engineer or similar role, with a focus on IaC.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Proficiency in at least one Cloud infrastructure. (e.g. AWS, AWS Govcloud, Azure, GCP) and a good understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Prior experience in estimating time and effort for medium-sized tasks.
Demonstrated ability to guide and mentor junior engineers.
Experience with security automation and familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and AWS Cloud Security.
Knowledge of Information Security frameworks/standards, such as ISO/IEC 27001:2013, CSA CCM, NIST CSF, HMG SPF, and Cyber Essentials.
Firm grasp of AWS cloud infrastructure design aligning security, performance, and resilience.
Implementation and testing of security policies with a working knowledge of web infrastructure and tools.
Experience in architecture security design, monitoring, and performance instrumentation in a complex enterprise environment.
Demonstrated familiarity with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and Docker.
Familiarity with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, systems, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services.
Comfort with debugging systems, reading/writing code, and understanding Incident, Problem, Change, and Release management processes.
Hold a security clearance/Eligible to apply for a security clearance.
Knowledgeable about Incident Response tools/systems and Site Reliability Engineering.
Knowledgeable about DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD.
Ability to work on a team following an Agile framework.
Comfortable and experienced in working on projects with compliance requirements.
An advocate for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Cybersecurity as Code (CaC).
Experienced with automated testing.
Proficient with technologies such as K8s deployment & security, hardware familiarity, full-stack experience, transforming applications into K8s friendly formats, and scripting languages like Python, Go, or Ansible.
Kubernetes Administration experience with RKE2 or EKS preferred.
Proficient with YAML or Helm.

If you are a skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer or Platform Engineer looking to contribute to the growth and success of a dynamic organization, we invite you to apply and join our team.

Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience. Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.

Remote - USA

$153,000—$195,000 USD

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

Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy:

Health:

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

Financial:

401k with Employer Contribution (Regardless of Employee Contribution)
Company Stock Options
Home Office Setup Budget

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:

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

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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