Infrastructure Engineer, Kubernetes

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><h3><strong>ABOUT THE TEAM</strong></h3> <p>Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.<br><br><strong>ABOUT THE JOB</strong><br><br>As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will own and advance our Kubernetes container orchestration strategy across both cloud (GCP) and bare metal deployments. Your expertise will be foundational to the reliability and scalability of our entire platform, from our core cloud hub to a growing number of on-premise edge nodes. You will be responsible for the full cluster lifecycle, implementing best practices in GitOps and Infrastructure as Code to ensure robust and repeatable workload deployments. This is a key role where you will serve as a subject matter expert, strengthening the team's overall orchestration capabilities and partnering closely with our Edge-Cloud teams to solve complex deployment challenges.<br><br><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO</strong></p> <ul> <li>Container orchestration across cloud and failover-edge: cluster lifecycle, GitOps, workload reliability.</li> <li>Manage a helm mono-repo and implement Kubernetes best practices in managing dynamic configurations.</li> <li>Partner with the Edge-Cloud Reliability pod on deploying/reconciling workloads to on-prem nodes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS</strong></p> <ul> <li>Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret / SCI Clearance.</li> <li>Mid-level: Kubernetes, containers, GitOps (Flux/Argo or successor), IaC.</li> <li>Comfortable spanning cloud and and bare metal environments.</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">US Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$166,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$220,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span data-contrast="auto">The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span>