Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, focused on building and operating product-aligned platform capabilities. The role involves creating persistent environments and integration layers to enhance software development and customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access
- Build feature branch and preview environments to support UX and rapid feedback loops
- Enable internal dogfooding through real, long-running deployments of UDS products
- Integrate core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services
- Reduce reliance on local environments by creating shared, reproducible infrastructure
- Support pathways toward self-service demo and trial environments
- Improve system reliability by enabling continuous, real-world usage and validation
- Partner with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios
- Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions where environments and integration are concerned
Skills
- US citizenship and eligibility to obtain a clearance
- Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments, specifically Azure
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems
- Experience with Helm, GitOps workflows, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
- Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and deployment pipelines
- Experience integrating distributed systems across multiple services
- Comfortable working across system boundaries (application, infrastructure, networking)
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and UX
- Active Secret clearance
- System image/architecture and deployment experience
- Familiarity with the Army, Army Software Factory, or similar DoD software organizations
- Experience with Zarf or UDS
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- We offer all full-time Unicorns 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)
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