Senior Space SRE: Kubernetes, STIGs, Air-Gapped Ops

Roboticsconnected; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Space team in Costa Mesa, CA. You’ll own the reliability, security posture, and evolution of a classified networking capability delivering Space Domain Awareness data for the US Space Force.

Expect to harden air-gapped infrastructure, build with Ansible/Puppet/Terraform, and drive observability across distributed systems. You’ll collaborate with Mission Software Engineers, Mission Ops, TPMs, and customer sites

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Secret security clearance required (prefer TS/SCI).
• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes in production environments.
• Expert-level Linux proficiency (Networking, filesystems, systemd, SELinux, kernel tuning).
• Proven experience with STIG compliance and system hardening.
• Experience in air-gapped/classified environments.
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).
• Scripting in Bash and Python for automation.
• Observability tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Leadership presence without title; strong communication and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical SME on a live DoD system, setting team standards.
• Stand up and harden classified Linux-based infrastructure across distributed sites.
• Enforce STIG compliance and system hardening across environments.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform.
• Write automation scripts in Bash and Python; optimize workflows.
• Maintain observability across stack using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.
• Manage containerized workloads in Kubernetes at scale in production.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support for Space Domain Awareness mission.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux proficiency

STIG compliance

Infrastructure as code

Bash

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Observability

Distributed systems

Documentation

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Space team in Costa Mesa, CA. You’ll own the reliability, security posture, and evolution of a classified networking capability delivering Space Domain Awareness data for the US Space Force.

Expect to harden air-gapped infrastructure, build with Ansible/Puppet/Terraform, and drive observability across distributed systems. You’ll collaborate with Mission Software Engineers, Mission Ops, TPMs, and customer sites