Site Reliability Engineer, Strategic Defense

The role

You will rack and provision hardware, build automation for server clusters, and design software delivery for disconnected environments. You will also debug failures across the Linux kernel, network, and Kubernetes, and deploy systems at customer sites.

What you will do

• Provision bare metal at scale using PXE boot, kickstart, BMC/iDRAC, firmware, and STIG hardening.
• Run self-managed Kubernetes clusters like RKE2, k3s, and Talos on-prem and at the edge.
• Design software and data delivery for disconnected environments with limited bandwidth.
• Move software across network boundaries including air-gapped and classified networks.
• Trace failures across Linux, the network, and Kubernetes and lead root cause analysis.
• Write Python and Bash tooling and manage infrastructure as code.
• Travel to sites to install and support systems.

Required qualifications

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• 3-8+ years of hands-on infrastructure, systems or site reliability engineering.
• Knowledge of Linux process states, system calls, memory, file systems, inodes, systemd, and permissions/SELinux.
• Networking knowledge of TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, routing, VLANs and firewalls.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes internals including Services, kube-proxy, CNI, DNS, scheduling, requests/limits and storage.
• Ability to write working Python and Bash from scratch.

Nice to have

• Experience building, deploying or operating systems on air-gapped, classified or security-hardened networks.
• Experience designing distributed systems for the edge or for disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DIL) conditions.
• Infrastructure as code and GitOps (Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD/Flux).
• Experience with Nix is a plus.
• Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry).
• Platform and supply-chain security: image signing, PKI and certificate authorities, disk encryption (LUKS), FIPS.
• Ability to read, debug and modify software written in Go, Python, Rust or C++.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

• Must currently possess and be able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• Consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their systems are powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.