Site Reliability Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Slope; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive equity grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the health and operational excellence of its infrastructure across cloud and edge environments. The role focuses on improving CI/CD pipelines, automating tests, and reducing manual tasks.

The ideal candidate should have a strong operational mindset, mid-level experience in DevOps, and the ability to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret clearance. The estimated salary for this role is between $146,000 and $194,000 annually, with competitive benefits included.

Qualifications

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret / SCI Clearance.
• Mid-level experience in systems administration / DevOps / SRE.
• A true operational mindset focused on uptime and repeatability.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine operations, maintenance, patching, and health checks of the infrastructure.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and implement GitOps workflows.
• Automate testing and validation for infrastructure changes.

Skills

Systems administration

DevOps

IaC (Terraform/Nix)

CI/CD

Scripting

GCP

Containers/K8s

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Site Reliability Engineer, your primary mission is to ensure the health, repeatability, and operational excellence of our entire infrastructure across both cloud and edge environments. You will be the operational force multiplier for our engineering teams, responsible for day-to-day environment maintenance, improving CI/CD pipelines, and building automated testing for all infrastructure changes. Your central charter is to systematically identify and eliminate manual toil, turning it into scalable, automated solutions that increase platform resilience. We are looking for an engineer with a true operational mindset who is passionate about using their systems administration, IaC, and scripting skills to achieve maximum uptime and repeatability.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Environment O&M: routine operations, maintenance, patching, and health of the infra environment across
  cloud and supporting edge. Patch/update management and remote management tooling.
• DevOps improvements: CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, GCR-based redeploy, and toil-reduction
  automation.
• Automated testing: build automated test/validation for infrastructure changes and deployments.
• Observability hygiene: ensure logs/metrics/dashboards stay wired as the environment changes.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret / SCI Clearance.
• Mid-level systems administration / DevOps / SRE: Linux, IaC (Terraform/Nix), CI/CD, scripting.
• Comfort with GCP and containers/K8s; test-automation aptitude.
• Operational mindset - measures success in uptime, repeatability, and reduced manual steps.

US Salary Range

$146,000 — $194,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.