Work in a small, dedicated team architecting US Navy enterprise systems.
Collaborate with other teams to integrate applications with Defense Unicorns’ software delivery platform.
Help build pipelines that automate testing, building, packaging, and deploying platform components.
Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code to create standardized, reusable modules that automate provisioning across diverse hypervisors and cloud platforms.
Provide grounded time and effort estimates for tasks. Assist in project planning and resource allocation based on estimated timelines.
Validate Solutions/Implementations: Ensure that solutions and implementations align with the outlined tasks and business requirements.
Rapidly understand customer mission requirements, conceptualize and prototype solutions, and rapidly iterate to deliver impact.
Author and maintain technical design documents, architecture decision records (ADRs), and test plans.

An Active Secret Clearance is required for this position.
Strong proficiency with bare-metal Kubernetes (RKE2, K3D / K3S, EKS-D).
Familiarity with continuous delivery, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services.
Proficiency in at least one language (Python, Go) and Linux/Unix (Ubuntu, RHEL).
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/HCL, YAML, Bash) and automated CI/CD pipelines.
Knowledge of Kubernetes networking, service meshes (Istio), ingress/egress controllers (metallb, nginx).
Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Promtail).
Security and compliance practices: runtime security (Neuvector), policy enforcement (Kyverno, Pepr).
Ability to produce technical design docs, ADRs, and test plans.
Excellent communication skills and cross-team collaboration.
Proficiency with GitHub and GitLab.

Medical/Dental/Vision
Premiums are 100% Company Paid
Health Reimbursement Account
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401k Retirement Plan
Company Stock Options
Home Office Budget
Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
Paid Parental Leave
Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

Infrastructure Engineer – Bare Metal Kubernetes

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