Solutions Architect
Defense Unicorns
Solutions Architect
Defense Unicorns
Secure DevSecOps platform for defense
As a Solutions Architect at Defense Unicorns, you'll serve as the primary technical point of contact during customer engagements, working closely with business development, engineering, and product teams to ensure that our offerings are both compelling and relevant to our government and defense customers.
This role combines deep technical knowledge with strong communication and problem-solving skills. You'll be responsible for delivering live product demos, maintaining infrastructure for proof-of-concept environments, and supporting the long and complex sales cycles typical in the defense sector. Your mission is to ensure that prospective customers not only understand what our technology does, but believe in what it can do for them.
This is a hands-on, customer-facing role ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments, brings practical experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure, and is passionate about making a tangible impact on national security through technology.
Act as a trusted advisor for customers and their technical needs, challenges, and goals during customer engagements.
Participate in sales calls and business development meetings, often as the primary technical contact; travel as required to support on-site engagements.
Discover real mission needs beyond surface-level requirements; ask probing questions to understand core mission challenges and align our solutions accordingly.
Architect solutions based on potential customer requirements and clearly articulate those solutions.
Maintain Kubernetes-based technical demo environments and lead live, hands-on demonstrations of our UDS Core platform and capabilities.
Build and deliver technical proof-of-concepts, including live installations and technical walkthroughs to validate platform capabilities in real time.
Troubleshoot Kubernetes, containers, cloud infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues during customer demonstrations and technical engagements.
Support long defense sales cycles by delivering proof-of-concepts, follow-up demos, and ongoing technical guidance.
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.
An active Secret security clearance is required at the time of hire.
Travel as required to support customer engagements, on-site demonstrations, and mission needs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Remote - USA 148750 - 201250 USD
Secure DevSecOps platform for defense
Defense Unicorns provides secure, open-source DevSecOps solutions and related services for defense and federal customers. Its platform is designed to be infrastructure-agnostic, integrating development, security, and operations to deliver software quickly while meeting strict federal security and accreditation standards. The company differentiates itself by focusing on mission-driven government and defense programs, leveraging open-source tooling, and offering training and consulting to help organizations upskill, transform digitally, and navigate DoD SBIR/STTR programs. The goal is to help government agencies and defense contractors deliver secure software at speed, acquire and integrate software solutions efficiently, and achieve compliance in complex procurement environments.
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