Site Reliability Engineer, Strategic Defense

LinuxCareers; Washington (District of Columbia); In loco; USD 147.000 - 196.000; Tempo pieno

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Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Descrizione del lavoro

Anduril Industries is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for its Strategic Defense team to build and operate resilient infrastructure for military command and control systems. Responsibilities include bare-metal provisioning, edge Kubernetes, and air-gapped environments.

You will debug kernel/network/Kubernetes issues and automate with Python/Bash. The role requires a US Top Secret clearance with 3–8+ years of SRE experience, strong Linux and networking skills, and proficiency in

Competenze

• Active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• 3–8+ years of hands-on infrastructure, systems, or SRE experience.
• Deep Linux knowledge: processes, system calls, memory, files, inodes, systemd, SELinux.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, routing, VLANs, firewalls.
• Kubernetes operational expertise below the managed layer; kubectl proficiency.
• Ability to write Python and Bash scripts from scratch for logs, files, retries, and error handling.

Mansioni

• Provision bare-metal servers at scale using PXE boot, kickstart, BMC/iDRAC, firmware updates, and STIG hardening before integrating into Kubernetes clusters.
• Operate self-managed Kubernetes clusters (RKE2, k3s, Talos) on-premises and at the edge, managing networking, storage, upgrades, and capacity.
• Design and implement software delivery mechanisms for disconnected environments with limited bandwidth and short update windows.
• Debug failures across the Linux kernel, network, and Kubernetes layers; lead root cause analysis and postmortem reviews.
• Write Python and Bash automation tools, manage infrastructure as code, and travel to customer sites for system installation and support.

Conoscenze

Top Secret clearance

SRE experience

Linux fundamentals

Kubernetes

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Networking

IaC / GitOps

Strumenti

RKE2

k3s

Talos

Descrizione del lavoro

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for their Strategic Defense team. This role focuses on building and operating resilient infrastructure for military command and control systems, including bare-metal provisioning, Kubernetes cluster management, and support for air-gapped, disconnected environments.

What You'll Do

• Provision bare-metal servers at scale using PXE boot, kickstart, BMC/iDRAC, firmware updates, and STIG hardening before integrating into Kubernetes clusters
• Operate self-managed Kubernetes clusters (RKE2, k3s, Talos) on-premises and at the edge, managing networking, storage, upgrades, and capacity
• Design and implement software delivery mechanisms for disconnected environments with limited bandwidth and short update windows
• Debug failures across the Linux kernel, network, and Kubernetes layers; lead root cause analysis and postmortem reviews
• Write Python and Bash automation tools, manage infrastructure as code, and travel to customer sites for system installation and support

What You Need

• Currently possess and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• 3–8+ years of hands-on infrastructure, systems, or site reliability engineering experience
• Deep Linux knowledge: process states, system calls, memory, file systems, inodes, systemd, and SELinux
• Network fundamentals: TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, routing, VLANs, and firewalls; ability to trace requests end-to-end
• Kubernetes operational expertise below the managed layer: Services, kube-proxy, CNI, DNS, scheduling, storage; proficiency with kubectl
• Ability to write working Python and Bash scripts from scratch for log parsing, file handling, retries, and error handling

Nice to Have

• Experience building, deploying, or operating systems on air-gapped, classified, or security-hardened networks
• Experience designing distributed systems for edge or disconnected/intermittent/limited (DIL) conditions: mesh networks, store-and-forward, peer distribution, QoS
• Infrastructure as code and GitOps tools: Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Flux; Nix experience
• Observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry
• Platform and supply-chain security: image signing, PKI, certificate authorities, disk encryption (LUKS), FIPS
• Ability to read, debug, and modify software in Go, Python, Rust, or C++

Base salary $147,000–$196,000 USD; highly competitive equity grants included in full-time offers; top-tier benefits package available at little to no cost to employees