Platform Engineer (FedD160)

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their platform team, a combined DevOps and SRE team responsible for developing, maintaining, and ensuring the reliability of a cloud-based platform. The role involves working across infrastructure as code, automated deployments, identity and access management, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will serve as a bridge between application teams and the platform, advocating best practices and ensuring the platform is reliable,secure

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (deploying, managing, and troubleshooting clusters and workloads); Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, or similar); Proficiency with CI/CD tooling, particularly GitLab CI or equivalent pipeline platforms; Working knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems and command-line administration; Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (EC2, EKS, IAM, S3, VPC); Familiarity with containerization (Docker, container image builds,