United States onlyWhat success looks like in this role:
The Platform Engineering Lead is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and efficient technology solutions. This role drives automation, operational efficiency, and best practices across the environment—enabling internal teams and customers through self-service platforms and streamlined processes. The individual partners closely with architecture, operations, and security to eliminate manual work, enforce standards, and modernize platforms supporting the Unisys Cloud Native Platform.
Technical Leadership and Delivery
Serves as a senior engineering resource guiding solution design, integration, and automation efforts across multiple platforms and environments.
Provides technical direction and mentorship to peers, helping elevate team capability and drive consistency across engineering practices.
Maintains ownership for end-to-end delivery of platform components, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and compliance with architectural standards.
Partners with project managers and architects to support delivery timelines, milestones, and resource alignment.
Automation and Tooling Development
Designs and implements automation solutions using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
Applies configuration-as-code principles and promotes standardized deployment methods to minimize manual intervention.
Develops and enhances self-service capabilities for provisioning, access, and operational workflows through platforms like ServiceNow or internal catalogs.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Engages directly with business, architecture, and operations stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable engineering solutions.
Works with security and compliance teams to align infrastructure standards and enforce automation-driven controls.
Acts as a technical liaison to support modernization and continuous improvement initiatives across teams.
Standards and Operational Excellence
Contributes to the development and enforcement of best practices for build, deployment, support, and incident management.
Implements and maintains observability frameworks using tools such as Zabbix, Managed Engine, or Datadog for proactive issue detection.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
Continuously evaluates emerging technologies to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Leads by example in adopting modern engineering patterns such as microservices, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
Contributes to the evolution of the Unisys Cloud Native Platform, supporting modernization and innovation efforts.
You will be successful in this role if you have:
BA/BS degree and 6-8 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.
Unisys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to age, caste, citizenship, color, disability, family medical history, family status, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, parental status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
This commitment includes our efforts to provide for all those who seek to express interest in employment the opportunity to participate without barriers. If you are a US job seeker unable to review the job opportunities herein, or cannot otherwise complete your expression of interest, without additional assistance and would like to discuss a request for reasonable accommodation, please contact our Global Recruiting organization at GlobalRecruiting@unisys.com or alternatively Toll Free: 888-560-1782 (Prompt 4). US job seekers can find more information about Unisys’ EEO commitment here.
