Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

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 Business Systems team is responsible for building and improving the many systems that enables Anduril to accomplish its mission. Anduril's supply chain, accounting, sales & growth, engineering, modeling & simulation, field maintenance, manufacturing, and many more teams rely on the technology built and maintained by our team. We work across the company to ensure we have the tools and capabilities necessary for mission success.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision, manage, and scale complex infrastructure for all of Business Systems.
• Continuously improve and refine CI/CD pipelines to enhance efficiency, reliability, and speed of software delivery.
• Champion a culture of observability and reliability within the organization, promoting best practices and tools to enhance system visibility and resilience.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to understand their requirements and translate them into functional cloud solutions with industry best practices.
• Have a deep understanding of the company's business goals and objectives and be able to design and implement infrastructure solutions that align with them.
• Harden systems and assess workload demands and plan resource capacity to ensure that infrastructure resources can scale to ensure optimal performance and cost-efficiency.

Required Characteristics

Anduril is an extremely fast-paced defense manufacturing and technology startup that is rapidly scaling itself. Our culture is one of ambition, hard work, relentless pursuit of excellence, and deliberate disruption. The successful candidate will be one who demonstrates the follow core characteristics:

• Bias for Action - they ask for forgiveness, not permission, and hate the idea of waiting around to be told what to do.
• Dive Deep - they sweat the details and roll up their sleeves to uncover the root causes for systemic issues.
• Ownership - they care deeply not just about their systems, but for all the business outcomes that their systems supports as well, holding themselves accountable for everything it both does and fails to do.
• Agility - they change directions easily and without regret, quickly adapting to shifting business priorities.
• First Principles Thinking - they approach problems and develop solutions not based on what a vendor recommends or because it's how they did things at their last job, but from a deep appreciation of what is best for the enterprise.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of working experience in DevOps or SRE type roles
• Strongly proficient in utilizing cloud services like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Ability to design and implement secure, scalable, and maintainable IoT architectures
• Experience with IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation, Puppet, Ansible, etc)
• Strong experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Helm
• Strong understanding of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
• Deep understanding of networking concepts, TCP/IP protocols, and security best practices
• Programming ability in one or more of the general scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, Rust, etc)
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work well under pressure
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and develop internal roadmaps based on the needs of other teams
• Experience deploying complex and scalable infrastructure solutions
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, or Google Cloud Certified Professional.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data