Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer - UK Government

The role

You will build, operate and maintain reliable, scalable services for Palantir platforms and deployments, working with forward deployed and product teams. The work supports UK government missions and includes production support and automation.

What you will do

• Handle support and operations of Palantir software, including monitoring and alerting, configuration management and upgrades
• Deploy new Palantir products across many production environments and perform migrations to the latest infrastructure types
• Debug, improve and optimise Palantir services and infrastructure for long-term reliability and scalability
• Reduce manual operations and automate workflows, processes and runbooks where possible
• Provide technical troubleshooting for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact
• Participate in a support on-call schedule
• Develop novel solutions in Palantir's Foundry and Apollo platforms to solve infrastructure challenges
• Develop software and own reliability and operations for systems critical to government challenges
• Share responsibility with forward deployed and product teams for diagnosing, resolving and preventing production issues

Required qualifications

• Strong engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or Data Science
• Strong coder with shown proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript or similar
• Active or eligible for DV UK security clearance
• Ability to be physically located in the facility (or 15 minutes away) during open hours
• Sole British National
• Ability to work in a facility as a lone worker
• Confidence troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using observability tools and service logs
• Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks
• Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies such as load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems or configuration management
• Proficiency with Java, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Go or similar and comfort coding or using tooling built in these languages
• Ability to work with high autonomy in a rapidly changing environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for multi-functional teams

Benefits

• Health and well-being support across all areas of life
• Growth opportunities based on individual strengths, skills and interests rather than traditional career ladders

Before you apply

• Requires active or eligible DV UK security clearance
• Only sole British nationals are eligible
• Must be able to be physically located at the facility (or 15 minutes away) during open hours
• Must be able to work as a lone worker
• Palantir will never ask you to submit a payment or share financial information during interviews

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, helping partners develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. The company says it empowers the world's most important institutions.