Sr Space Product Ops Engineer — Kubernetes & Secured Infra

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Product Operations Engineer for its Space team in Costa Mesa, CA. The role focuses on operating, hardening, and evolving a classified networking capability that delivers Space Domain Awareness data for USSF.

You’ll own reliability and security across globally distributed air-gapped infrastructure and contribute to end-to-end deployments. You’ll collaborate with Mission Software Engineers, Mission Ops, TPMs, and customer sites worldwide, providing

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Secret security clearance (must maintain)
• 5+ years with Kubernetes in production
• Expert Linux proficiency (terminal-driven)
• STIG compliance and system hardening experience
• Proven experience in air-gapped/classified environments
• IaC tooling: Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
• Scripting in Bash and Python for automation
• Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
• Leadership presence and strong communication/documentation
• Familiarity with Git, code review, and agile practices
• Interest in transforming US/ally military capabilities in space

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Security clearance

Kubernetes

Linux

STIG

Air-gapped

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Leadership

Communication

Git

Agile

Go

Rust

Java

CCNA

HAIPE

Space Domain Awareness

Lattice OS

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Git

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Product Operations Engineer for its Space team in Costa Mesa, CA. The role focuses on operating, hardening, and evolving a classified networking capability that delivers Space Domain Awareness data for USSF.

You’ll own reliability and security across globally distributed air-gapped infrastructure and contribute to end-to-end deployments. You’ll collaborate with Mission Software Engineers, Mission Ops, TPMs, and customer sites worldwide, providing