Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, New Grad - UK Government

The role

You will build, operate and maintain scalable, reliable services for Palantir platforms and government deployments. You will support production systems, automate manual work and share on-call responsibility with forward deployed and product teams.

What you will do

• Handle support and operations of Palantir software, including monitoring, alerting, configuration management and upgrades
• Deploy new Palantir products at customer deployments and perform migrations to the latest infrastructure
• Debug, improve and optimise services and infrastructure for long-term reliability and scalability
• Reduce manual operations and automate workflows, processes and runbooks
• Provide technical troubleshooting for production issues and participate in a support on-call schedule
• Develop solutions in Palantir's Foundry and Apollo platforms to solve infrastructure challenges

Required qualifications

• Strong engineering background, preferably in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics or Data Science
• Strong coder with proven proficiency in Java, Go, Python, JavaScript or similar languages
• 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
• Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies such as load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems or configuration management
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work in multi-functional teams
• Ability to work with high autonomy in a rapidly changing environment

Before you apply

• Active or eligible for DV UK security clearance is required
• Must be a sole British National
• Must be able to work onsite at the facility (or 15 minutes away) during open hours
• Must be able to work as a lone worker

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations used by governments and partners. Its platforms support work such as developing drugs, forecasting supply chain disruptions and locating missing children.