SRE: Strategic Defense (Edge & On-Prem Infra)

Anduril Industries; Washington; On-site; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Strategic Defense team in the United States. You will rack and provision hardware, automate deployments, and ensure resilient systems operating across on‑prem and edge environments are capable of handling disconnected or limited‑bandwidth conditions.

You will collaborate with software, data and operations engineers to deploy real infrastructure for customers, debug issues from Linux kernel to Kubernetes, and travel to sites

Qualifications

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• 3-8+ years of hands-on infrastructure, systems or site reliability engineering.
• You can explain Linux process states, system calls, memory, file systems and inodes, systemd, and permissions/SELinux, and you can find the process behind a symptom from the shell without a cloud console.
• You network using first principles: TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, routing, VLANs and firewalls. You can trace a request hop by hop from client to pod and name the tool you’d use at each step.
• You know Kubernetes below the managed layer: how Services, kube-proxy, CNI, DNS, scheduling, requests/limits and storage actually work, and how to debug them with kubectl, not a UI.
• You write working Python and Bash from scratch, without looking things up: parsing logs and text, handling files and processes, adding retries and error handling, and reading and fixing someone else’s script.

Responsibilities

• Provision bare metal at scale. Run the pipeline that takes servers from rack to production: PXE boot, kickstart, BMC/iDRAC, firmware, STIG hardening, and handoff into Kubernetes.
• Run Kubernetes without a managed control plane. Operate self-managed clusters (RKE2, k3s, Talos) on-prem and at the edge: networking, storage, upgrades and capacity.
• Design for disconnected environments. Decide how software and data reach hundreds of nodes that may be offline, with limited bandwidth and short update windows.
• Move software across network boundaries. Ship and update systems on air-gapped and classified networks, including through cross-domain solutions and data diodes.
• Debug at every layer. Trace failures across Linux, the network and Kubernetes, then lead the root cause analysis and postmortem.
• Automate the toil. Write the Python and Bash tooling the fleet runs on, and manage infrastructure as code.
• Deploy with customers. Travel to sites to install and support systems, often as the only engineer there.

Skills

SRE fundamentals

Kubernetes (ops)

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Linux systems

Networking basics

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

ArgoCD/Flux

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Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Strategic Defense team in the United States. You will rack and provision hardware, automate deployments, and ensure resilient systems operating across on‑prem and edge environments are capable of handling disconnected or limited‑bandwidth conditions.

You will collaborate with software, data and operations engineers to deploy real infrastructure for customers, debug issues from Linux kernel to Kubernetes, and travel to sites