Role Description We are seeking a Team Engineering Lead to support the VA.gov Platform Management team in leading enterprise integration engineering efforts across mission-critical Veteran-facing systems and services. This role will provide technical leadership for integration architecture, API management, platform modernization, and engineering delivery while supporting secure, scalable, and resilient digital services across the VA.gov ecosystem. You will be an experienced engineering leader with deep MuleSoft expertise, strong systems integration experience, and a passion for delivering modern, reliable solutions in complex federal environments. Responsibilities - Engineering Leadership & Solution Delivery - Lead engineering teams supporting enterprise integration and API platform initiatives. - Provide technical leadership across platform architecture, integration design, API development, and systems interoperability. - Design, develop, maintain, and optimize scalable integration solutions supporting enterprise applications and digital services. - Oversee technical implementation activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments. - Support modernization efforts focused on platform scalability, security, reliability, and operational efficiency. - Collaborate with Product Leads, platform engineering teams, SREs, DevOps engineers, and government stakeholders to align technical execution with mission priorities. - Ensure engineering solutions align with cybersecurity, compliance, accessibility, and platform governance standards. - Drive engineering best practices, automation, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives. - Integration Architecture & Platform Operations - Lead API lifecycle management, integration architecture planning, and platform configuration activities. - Support enterprise integration patterns, reusable services, and secure data exchange strategies. - Troubleshoot complex integration issues and support root cause analysis, incident resolution, and operational support activities. - Prepare technical documentation, engineering reports, operational metrics, and architecture artifacts. - Coordinate cross-functional engineering efforts and manage technical dependencies across teams and external partners. - Support Agile delivery activities including backlog refinement, sprint planning, technical estimation, and release coordination. - Participate in transition planning, onboarding activities, and knowledge transfer sessions supporting operational continuity. Qualifications - Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance. - Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or related engineering/technical discipline required. - Minimum of ten (10) years of relevant engineering, systems integration, platform architecture, or enterprise software delivery experience. - Additional relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of education requirements. - Strong experience leading enterprise integration and API development initiatives in large-scale environments. - Experience designing, building, and maintaining enterprise integration platforms and distributed systems. - Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software engineering methodologies. - Experience supporting Agile delivery methodologies and cross-functional engineering teams. - Strong troubleshooting, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts across technical and executive audiences. Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting VA.gov or other federal digital service platforms. - Familiarity with enterprise API gateways, integration middleware, observability platforms, and operational support models. - Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, infrastructure automation, or cloud-native platform engineering. - Experience supporting organizational transitions, onboarding activities, or knowledge transfer efforts. - Experience using Jira, Confluence, GitHub, ServiceNow, or similar engineering collaboration tools. Working Conditions Standard Business hours are Monday through Friday. Occasional extended or weekend hours may be required based on operational needs. Must have reliable internet service that allows for effective telecommuting. Pay Range The base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $170,000 annually, depending on geographic work location, relevant experience, skills, education, internal equity, security clearance, and contract requirements. Geographic salary ranges are determined in accordance with the company's compensation practices and represent a good-faith estimate of the compensation for this position at the time of posting. Benefits - Medical, Dental, and Vision. - Health Saving Account (when enrolled ineligible plan) with Company contribution. - Company paid Life, Accidental Death, Short-term & Long-term Disability. - Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, & Critical Care Insurance. - Voluntary Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts. - Accrued Paid Time Off & Company Paid Holidays. - 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company match. Work Authorization Sprezzatura participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. EEO Statement Sprezzatura is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. Applicants have the right to discuss, disclose, or inquire about compensation without retaliation. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities. This job description is not intended to be an employment contract and does not guarantee employment for any specific duration.

Title: Senior Platform Engineer Location: Remote, United States Job Description: EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Fleet team, focused on building and operating product-aligned platform capabilities that enable how our software is developed, validated, and experienced. This role is responsible for creating and owning persistent, always-on environments and integration layers across the UDS platform, including Fleet Management, Edge Management, and system-level components. These environments power internal dogfooding, UX validation, and customer demos, reducing reliance on ad-hoc local setups and enabling scalable, repeatable and delightful product experiences. Today, engineers are frequently pulled into demo setup and environment management of the suite of products, creating context switching and slowing product delivery. This role exists to solve that problem by establishing reliable, self-service environments and tighter system integration, allowing engineering teams to focus on building product capabilities while improving overall product quality and usability. You will operate at the intersection of platform engineering and product development, ensuring that the systems we build can be continuously exercised, validated, and experienced in real-world conditions. You will be responsible for advocating for a delightful customer product experience as the integrator of the product portfolio. What You'll Work On: - Designing and operating always-on product environments for customer demos, internal use, and stakeholder access - Building feature branch / preview environments to support UX and rapid feedback loops - Enabling internal dogfooding through real, long-running deployments of UDS products - Integrating core system components across Fleet Management, Edge Management, OS, and related services - Reducing reliance on local environments by creating shared, reproducible infrastructure - Supporting pathways toward self-service demo and trial environmentsImproving system reliability by enabling continuous, real-world usage and validationPartnering with engineering, product, and UX to ensure environments reflect real user scenarios Responsibilities: - 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 demos and stakeholder access through stable, well-understood systems - Contribute to platform and product architecture decisions where environments and integration are concerned Travel Expectations/Requirements: 10-20% 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. Preferred Experience and Qualifications: - 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 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. Remote - USA $148,750 - $201,250 USD Who We Are 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. What We Do 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. Who We Serve 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. What We Work On - Kubernetes - Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure) - Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi) - Continuous Delivery and automation tooling - GitOps - Containers - CNCF projects and open source products and packages - Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping - Building and improving security delivery - Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy Health: - Medical/Dental/Vision - Premiums are 100% Company Paid - Health Reimbursement Account - Life Insurance - Disability Insurance Financial: - 401k Retirement Plan - Company Stock Options - Home Office Budget Leave: - 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 Learning: - Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions - Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees) Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed. 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.

• We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and manage secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms on AWS. • Design, deploy, and manage scalable, highly available AWS cloud infrastructure • Build and maintain secure cloud platforms with governance and standardization • Architect and support microservices, serverless, and event-driven systems • Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines with integrated DevSecOps practices • Embed security controls including IAM, encryption, vulnerability scanning, and compliance checks • Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation • Improve system resiliency through high availability, backups, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance strategies • Build and manage ETL pipelines and data workflows in cloud environments • Apply SRE principles including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning • Automate operational workflows using Python, Bash, or other scripting languages • Support AI/ML workloads by enabling scalable infrastructure, inference and security. • Implement and maintain MLOps pipelines for model versioning, automated training, testing, and deployment • Integrate model monitoring, performance tracking, and drift detection in production environments • Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and document platform architecture and processes.

• Work across the whole of Technology — Frontend, Backend, Data Engineering, Data Science and Warehouse Tech • Help other engineers ship better, faster, and more safely • Split time between embedded engagements inside domain squads and central platform work • Carry a high degree of autonomy and identify, shape, own problems end-to-end