Senior Cloud Engineer, Mission Systems & Kubernetes

Front Door Defense; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Mission Software Engineer for Intelligence Systems to design, deploy, and sustain resilient multi-cloud infrastructure for mission-critical software deployments in Reston, VA. The role focuses on Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and secure cloud environments across multi-cloud and on-premises setups.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable cloud infrastructure and tooling, while ensuring high availability, security, and

Qualifications

• 3–7+ years of experience with Go, Python, Java or similar OO languages.
• Containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Networking concepts in a cloud environment (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups).
• Experience architecting and securing cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Proficiency with multiple cloud providers (GCP/AWS) and IaC (Terraform).
• Ability to decompose goals into technical objectives and lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate mission-critical cloud infrastructure for high availability and resilience.
• Develop tooling to build and support cloud and on‑prem deployments.
• Troubleshoot Linux-based infrastructure issues.
• Collaborate with software teams to optimize containerized deployments (RKE2).
• Monitor and remediate security weaknesses and baseline regressions.
• Serve as SME for Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across teams.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

Networking

Security clearance

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

GCP

AWS

RKE2

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Mission Software Engineer for Intelligence Systems to design, deploy, and sustain resilient multi-cloud infrastructure for mission-critical software deployments in Reston, VA. The role focuses on Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and secure cloud environments across multi-cloud and on-premises setups.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable cloud infrastructure and tooling, while ensuring high availability, security, and