Senior Space Product Ops Engineer - Kubernetes

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); Sur place; USD 183 000 - 243 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Product Operations Engineer for the Space team in Costa Mesa, CA. You will anchor a classified networking capability delivering Space Domain Awareness data for the U.S.

Space Force, ensuring security, reliability, and observability across globally distributed environments. You’ll work with Mission Software Engineers, Mission Ops, TPMs, and customer sites to deploy, document, train staff, and provide on-call support.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments deploying, scaling, debugging, and managing containerized workloads.
• Expert-level Linux proficiency with deep OS knowledge (networking, filesystems, systemd, SELinux, kernel tuning).
• Experience with STIG compliance and system hardening with applied remediations.
• Experience standing up infrastructure in air-gapped/classified environments.
• Proficiency with Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform for IaC at scale.
• Scripting experience in Bash and Python for automation and tooling.
• Proficient with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack for observability.
• Leadership presence and ability to guide engineers without formal management.
• Strong communication and documentation skills to translate complex issues.
• Understanding of Git-based development, code reviews, and agile practices.

Responsabilités

• Serve as a senior technical SME on a growing Product Operations team supporting a live, operational DoD system.
• Stand up, harden, and maintain classified Linux-based infrastructure across globally distributed air‑gapped sites; enforce STIGs.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform; automate provisioning and deployment pipelines.
• Write and maintain automation scripts in Bash and Python; develop operational tooling.
• Maintain observability across the stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for distributed systems.
• Manage containerized workloads in Kubernetes at scale in production, classified environments.
• Provide incident response, root-cause analysis, and resolution across apps and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with software engineers, mission ops, and TPMs to validate deployments and integrations.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support for Space Domain Awareness missions with US Space Force.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation with minimal supervision; know when to escalate.

Connaissances

Kubernetes

Linux

STIG compliance

Air-gapped environments

Ansible/Puppet/Terraform

Bash/Python scripting

Observability tooling

Container orchestration

Strong communication

Documentation

Git/version control

Agile methods

Outils

Kubernetes

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Description du poste

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Product Operations Engineer for the Space team in Costa Mesa, CA. You will anchor a classified networking capability delivering Space Domain Awareness data for the U.S.

Space Force, ensuring security, reliability, and observability across globally distributed environments. You’ll work with Mission Software Engineers, Mission Ops, TPMs, and customer sites to deploy, document, train staff, and provide on-call support.