Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Atlanta, GA · Tactical Recon & Strike : Tactical Recon & Strike Engineering : TRS - Systems Engineering

This role is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. The engineer will be responsible for deploying, integrating, and managing cloud environments for the Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike (TRS) division. Key responsibilities include managing cloud deployments, integrating platform services, maintaining data pipelines and observability infrastructure, providing field support, and establishing integration best practices across product lines. The role requires strong skills in programming (Python), CI/CD, IaC, cloud platforms, containerization, and monitoring tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and execute customer and developmental cloud deployments across TRS product lines, ensuring reliable configuration management, version control, and seamless promotion of releases from development through production environments.
  2. Evaluate, prototype, and integrate emerging platform capabilities (such as RDF and MissionSim) and/or 3rd party services (such as Arena AI and AFATDS/AXS) to improve data discoverability, consistency, and analytical capabilities across TRS systems.
  3. Maintain and enhance existing data pipelines, metrics frameworks, and monitoring solutions including Grafana and Nominal; ensure high availability, data quality, and actionable insights for engineering and operations teams.
  4. Collaborate directly with field operation teams during feature rollouts to conduct real-world testing, troubleshoot issues in operational environments, gather actionable feedback to inform system improvements and ensure mission success, and enable customer self-serve provisioning of environments.
  5. Partner with leadership to establish integration engineering functions and best practices across all TRS product lines, developing reusable patterns, documentation, and tooling that accelerate deployment capabilities and operational maturity.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or other STEM focused degree
  • Advanced proficiency in programming languages (Python for scripting and integration)
  • 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jfrog Artifactory, and Git
  • Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible)
  • 5+ plus years of experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Experience with logging and monitoring tools (Nominal and Grafana)
  • Understanding of parallel computing frameworks (CUDA, OpenCL)
  • Strong collaboration skills and proficiency with collaborative tools (JIRA, Confluence)
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice to have

  • Masters or other advanced STEM degree
  • Technical expertise and demonstrated performance in one or more of the following areas: networking, cloud technologies, application development, hardware design, and/or cybersecurity
  • Minimum of 7 years of operations and engineering experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.