Senior Platform Engineer: Self-Service Demo Environments

Archer; Colorado Springs (CO); A distancia; USD 149.000 - 201.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical/Dental/Vision

Premiums are 100% Company Paid

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Company Stock options

Home Office Budget

Descripción de la vacante

Archer partners with Defense Unicorns to hire a Senior Platform Engineer to design and operate always-on environments for demos, internal use, and stakeholder access. You will drive self-service deployments, integrate core components across fleet/edge/OS, and enable rapid UX feedback while reducing local setup needs.

US citizenship is required for this role; remote work is available within the USA. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user

Formación

• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software engineering.
• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based systems.
• Experience building and operating shared or multi-tenant environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, 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.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain scalable platform environments that support development, testing, and demos.
• Own the reliability and usability of shared environments used across the team.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers to integrate platform and product components.
• Identify and close gaps in system integration across services and infrastructure layers.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code for reproducible environments.
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction in environment setup and usage.
• Support product implementation and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems.
• Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions where environments and integration are concerned.

Conocimientos

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Multi-tenant environments

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

GitOps

Linux/Unix

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Herramientas

Terraform

Pulumi

Helm

Kustomize

Descripción del empleo

Archer partners with Defense Unicorns to hire a Senior Platform Engineer to design and operate always-on environments for demos, internal use, and stakeholder access. You will drive self-service deployments, integrate core components across fleet/edge/OS, and enable rapid UX feedback while reducing local setup needs.

US citizenship is required for this role; remote work is available within the USA. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user