Site Reliability Engineer - UK at Andurilindustries

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 The Multinational Digital Infrastructure team is responsible for designing, deploying, and sustaining the sovereign and multinational systems that power Anduril’s global Maritime and AUKUS missions. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will design and implement developer productivity tooling that enable Anduril to effectively operate sovereign programmes in the U.K. and Australia, as well as expanding to other nations as Anduril’s global presence increases. You will work across engineering, security, and product teams to ensure our digital infrastructure is secure, scalable, and ready to support fast paced software delivery and operational hosting that supports the mission critical services we provide to our customers. WHAT YOU’LL DO • Deploy and support our software engineering productivity tools, DevSecOps toolchains, and automated testing and release management infrastructure • Implement infrastructure automation (IaC), observability tooling, and secure configuration baselines to support scalable, repeatable environment builds. • Work closely with software engineering and data science engineers to ensure they have the tools needed to deliver robust software at pace and scale. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS • Ability to obtain and maintain a UK security clearance to minimum SC level • Bachelor’s degree in STEM field or equivalent engineering experience. • Technical depth in one or more: DevSecOps, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud infrastructure. Specific technology will include: • Infrastructure as Code - Terraform • Cloud - AWS • Network security including TLS, PKI, firewalls, VLANs • Virtualisation technology such as VMWare or KVM/QEMU • Linux operating systems, scripting and automation tooling - particularly Ubuntu and RHEL • 5+ years of relevant engineering, infrastructure, or technical program execution experience. • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required - typically around 10%. • Experience with secure systems engineering, ideally within UK Government or Defence. Experience in other highly regulated industries may also be relevant - for example Financial Services, Energy or Healthcare. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Experience designing or maintaining distributed systems, secure networks, or infrastructure supporting autonomy, AI/ML, or big data workloads. • Demonstrated ability to work across technical disciplines, influence without authority, and operate in ambiguous and fast-paced environments. • Experience working with international partners or navigating multi-nation technical or policy workflows. • Experience with physical hardware - including rack mounted storage, compute and networking • Network cryptography and VPN solutions - both software and accelerated/dedicated hardware • Hardening standards such as FIPS, STIG and CIS • Compliance standards such as ISO, NIST, Secure by Design • Air gapped/highly restricted networks UK Salary Range£75,000—£100,000 GBPThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. 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