Senior Space Product Operations Engineer

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Senior Product Operations Engineer for the Space team. You will anchor the technical discipline, maintain air-gapped Linux infrastructure, enforce STIG compliance, and automate at scale using IaC tools.

You’ll collaborate with Mission Software, Mission Ops, and TPMs to validate deployments and provide 24x7 on-call support for Space Domain Awareness systems.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Secret security clearance (preferred TS/SCI)
• 5+ years of Kubernetes in production environments
• Expert-level Linux proficiency in a security-focused, air-gapped setting
• Experience with STIG compliance and system hardening
• Experience standing up infrastructure in air-gapped/classified environments
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform)
• Scripting in Bash and Python for automation
• Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
• Strong leadership presence and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Experience with Git and agile practices
• Interest in advancing US space capabilities

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior SME on a live, DoD DoD system to set operational standards
• Stand up and harden classified Linux infrastructure across distributed sites in air-gapped environments
• Enforce STIG compliance and system hardening across environments
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code with Ansible/Puppet/Terraform
• Develop and maintain automation in Bash and Python
• Maintain observability across the stack with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
• Manage containerized workloads in Kubernetes at scale in production
• Provide on-call incident response and rapid root-cause analysis
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Mission Ops, and TPMs to validate deployments
• Provide 24x7 on-call support for Space Domain Awareness mission for USAF/DoD
• Drive continuous improvement and automation with minimal supervision

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

STIG compliance

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Bash

Python

Observability tooling

Distributed systems

Leadership presence

Communication

Software development practices

Go/Rust/Java (preferred)

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Git

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Senior Product Operations Engineer for the Space team. You will anchor the technical discipline, maintain air-gapped Linux infrastructure, enforce STIG compliance, and automate at scale using IaC tools.

You’ll collaborate with Mission Software, Mission Ops, and TPMs to validate deployments and provide 24x7 on-call support for Space Domain Awareness systems.