# Platform Engineer at Defenseunicorns

- Company: Defenseunicorns
- What the company does: At Defense Unicorns, we make software a strategic deterrent with solutions that promote data independence, portability, and efficiency. Backed by Sapphire.
- Company website: https://defenseunicorns.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/defenseunicorns/jobs/5229340007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/defenseunicorns-platform-engineer-4/

## About the role

You will help us automate and build a runtime Production Environment and serve as a link between the Applications, either custom development, COTS, or OSS, and that environment, advocating best practices and facilitating communication between the application teams and platform teams.

## What they're looking for

- Clearance Requirement: Active Secret clearance highly preferred
- Travel Expectations: 10%–25%
- Proven experience as a Platform Engineer or similar role, with a focus on system architecture and development
- Demonstrated experience 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
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Ansible) and a basic understanding of shell scripting

Tags: Federal Delivery