Defense Unicorns

Technical Mission Manager

Remote US
USD 123k - 164k
GCP Azure Kubernetes Go Python Bash Terraform AWS
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Description

Role Description: 

This role works within Defense Unicorns’ Delivery segment and will be working to provide Mission Heroes, customers, with secure DevOps solutions. Defense Unicorns is working with the Air Force Defensive Cyberspace Branch to modernize their portfolio. This role would help lead a cross disciplined engineering team that helps build out a mobile kubernetes bare metal platform.  

Responsibilities: 

  • Understand, help guide, and in some cases help architect our Kubernetes bare metal platform
  • Translate government requirements into a backlog of work and lead the engineers in planning, share government prioritization, and help with the day-to-day as able
  • Help communicate progress with fellow program managers
  • Work with other technical managers, the Cyber Domain technical lead, and the Cyber Domain lead to keep the overall architecture in alignment
  • Work with the Cyber Domain technical lead to keep solutions in alignment with company engineering directions 
  • Work with the Cyber Domain lead to ensure Mission Hero success 
  • Assist team members in troubleshooting and code authoring
  • Mentor junior engineers in their technical career development
  • Consult with Mission Managers on contract questions, staffing and planning
  • Participate in interviews for new team candidates
  • Perform code and PR reviews, hold team responsible for a high level of technical quality
  • Manage up to 8 engineers 

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:

  •  Experience with DoD Defensive Cyberspace Operations and tool sets
  • Experience with Hunt Forward Operations 
  • Eligible for Secret or Top Secret clearance
  • Experience working with Federal Government, specifically Department of Defense

What we work on for this role:

  • Host OS: Ubuntu & RHEL
  • Kubernetes: RKE2, K3D, K3S, EKS, and MicroK8s
  • Storage: ZFS, Longhorn, Rook-Ceph, and local volume storage
  • Applications & add-ons: ELK, Neuvector, Trivy, Grype, KeyCloak, Kyverno, Istio, metallb, ngnix, prometheus, promtail, loki, and Grafana
  • Languages: Go, Python, Ansbile, Yaml, Bash, and Terraform
  • Development tools: GitHub and GitLab

 

Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed. At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! 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.



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
$123,532$164,565 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)

Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed. 

At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! 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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