Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Product Operations Engineer to operate, maintain, and upgrade a classified networking capability that delivers Space Domain Awareness data for the United States Space Force. This onsite role is based in Costa Mesa, California, with a salary range of USD 129,000 to 171,000 per year. The position sits at the intersection of product engineering and mission assurance, helping to evolve a secure, globally distributed system for a DoD customer.
Responsibilities
- Join a growing team of product engineers delivering a new operational system to a DoD customer, helping steer its evolution and impact.
- Design and implement processes, workflow automations, and tooling to support end users of a globally distributed system hosted in a secure Anduril facility.
- Serve as a systems administration SME with a focus on Linux environments and configurations.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure operational readiness of new locations or features and maintain ongoing monitoring of the system baseline.
- Provide real time response, rapid resolution, and root-cause analysis for complex issues across code and infrastructure within an air gapped network.
- Improve operational efficiency through proactive automation, system optimization, and continuous monitoring and troubleshooting with minimal supervision, escalating as appropriate.
- Deliver 24x7 on call support as part of a larger Space Domain Awareness team supporting the United States Space Force.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible, and implement observability across Linux based distributed systems (monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing).
Requirements
- Active U.S. Secret clearance is required.
- Experience with device configuration, basic troubleshooting, and incident triage.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to manage work in isolated secure environments.
- Experience with Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, and related tools.
- Ability to convey complex concepts clearly across various communication methods and tools.
- Interest in applying advanced technology to enhance US and allied military capabilities in space contexts.
- Little travel required, with some opportunities to visit end-user locations.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools and practices such as monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Proficiency in Linux system administration, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and managing distributed systems.
- Understanding of software development practices including Git version control, code review, testing, and agile methodologies.
Technologies
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK stack
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Git
- Bash
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- Java
- Linux
- Lattice OS
- BGP
- OSPF
- DNS
- VLAN
- VRF
- QoS
- VPN
Benefits
Anduril offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support health, recovery, and long-term needs, with many options available at little to no cost to employees. For more details, explore the benefits information.
About the Team
Anduril's Space team focuses on expanding AI-powered capabilities for Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners. The group develops fully integrated hardware and software systems, including Lattice for Space Missions and modular payloads, to address growing threats in space and maintain a decisive advantage in this contested domain.
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