Senior Platform Engineer — Self‑Service Environments & Demos

Defense Unicorns; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 148,750 - 201,250; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Company paid premiums

Home office budget

Stock options

401k retirement plan

Paid holidays & leave

Training/conference reimbursements

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, focused on building and operating product‑aligned platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced. This role owns persistent, always‑on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, powering demos and UX validation.

You will reduce ad‑hoc demo setup by establishing self‑service environments and tighter system integration, enabling engineering teams to focus on

Qualifications

• US citizenship and eligibility to obtain a clearance.
• Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infra‑focused software.
• Hands‑on with cloud environments, especially Azure.
• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes and container systems.
• Experience with Helm, GitOps, and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience building/shared or multi‑tenant environments.
• Strong CI/CD understanding and deployment pipelines.
• Experience integrating distributed systems.
• Comfort across app, infra, and networking boundaries.
• Proficient in Linux/Unix systems.
• Strong problem solving and independent work capability.
• Strong communication and collaboration with Eng, Product, UX.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate always‑on product environments for demos and internal use.
• Build feature branch and preview environments to support UX feedback.
• Enable internal dogfooding with long‑running deployments of UDS products.
• Integrate core components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and services.
• Create shared, reproducible infrastructure to reduce local environment reliance.
• Support self‑service demo and trial environments.
• Improve reliability by enabling real‑world usage and validation.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and UX to reflect real user scenarios.
• Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions on environments and integration.

Skills

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Independent work

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps

Terraform

Pulumi

Linux/Unix

Job description

Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Army team, focused on building and operating product‑aligned platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced. This role owns persistent, always‑on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, powering demos and UX validation.

You will reduce ad‑hoc demo setup by establishing self‑service environments and tighter system integration, enabling engineering teams to focus on