Senior Platform Engineer - Army
Defense Unicorns2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$149k - $201k/yr
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 validation and rapid feedback.
- Enable internal dogfooding through long-running deployments of UDS products.
- Integrate Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related system components.
- Create shared, reproducible infrastructure to reduce reliance on local environments.
- Support self-service demo and trial environment capabilities.
- Improve system reliability through continuous, real-world usage and validation.
- Partner with engineering, product, and UX teams to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios.
- Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions involving environments and integration.
Requirements
- US citizenship and eligibility to obtain a security clearance are required.
- Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering is required.
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments, specifically Azure, is required.
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems is required.
- Experience with Helm, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi is required.
- Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments is required.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and deployment pipelines is required.
- Experience integrating distributed systems across multiple services is required.
- Ability to work across application, infrastructure, and networking boundaries is required.
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems is required.
- Strong problem-solving, independent judgment, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills are required.
- Active Secret clearance is preferred.
- System image, architecture, and deployment experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with the Army, Army Software Factory, or similar DoD software organizations is preferred.
- Experience with Zarf or UDS is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with premiums 100% company paid
- Health Savings Account, life insurance, and disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and home office budget
- Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year's
- Paid parental leave
- Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions
- Conference attendance with travel, lodging, and fees covered
- Travel required up to 25%
About Defense Unicorns
Defense Unicorns specializes in platform technologies that enable rapid and reliable delivery of capabilities across a wide range of mission and technology areas. We support open architecture platforms for secure mission systems that provide optionality for the end user, promote scalability, and allow for continuous identification and integration of new products and services while avoiding vendor lock. Our open approach creates partnership opportunities across the software ecosystem. Our people are innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across DoW and the broader federal market. Let's drive change together. Get in touch at hello@defenseunicorns.com