Technical Site Reliability Engineer

ABOUT THE TEAM

Advanced Capabilities is the internal warfighter research team for Andurils Maneuver Dominance division. We invent new products inform vehicle specifications define autonomous tactics and work out how humans and teams of autonomous systems will operate together in future contested multi-domain environments. Youll join a small multinational team of engineers spanning multiple disciplines such as wargaming game engineering HPC simulations LLM agents and VR environments; all to give our warfighters and researchers the leverage to explore faster test more ideas and better understand tomorrows war.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are building the next generation of wargaming facilities purpose-built for the military to run massive-scale simulations of autonomous systems operating in contested environments. Those facilities are only useful if they are up current and trustworthy. A failed scenario run or a silent regression after a software release costs operators and engineers real time.

As our founding Site Reliability Engineer you will design build and operate the infrastructure that makes this possible. Youll work at the intersection of hardware simulation software and distributed systems. You will be the person who knows why the simulation broke who catches it before anyone else notices and who makes sure it doesnt break the same way twice. This is a hands-on role that blends software maintenance infrastructure ownership and release validation with direct exposure to the development teams whose code youre keeping stable.

This position is in Abu Dhabi UAE with initial position hiring occurring in London UK. Candidate must be willing to relocate to the facility upon completion.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Maintain the simulation software stack - installation configuration updates version management and day-to-day functionality across the Simulation Centers tools and environments.
• Own the underlying infrastructure - compute networking storage and environment configuration that the simulation depends on; keep it provisioned patched and performant.
• Build and maintain a post-release test suite - design automate and continually extend a regression and smoke-test process that runs after every software release or configuration change so integration issues surface immediately rather than mid-exercise.
• Forecast diagnose and eliminate failure modes - root-cause errors and bugs in the system drive them to permanent resolution and implement the guardrails monitoring or process changes that prevent recurrence.
• Partner with development teams and stakeholders - review upcoming changes for reliability risk surface concerns early and implement mitigation strategies before releases land in the simulation environment.
• Monitor overall system health - instrument and watch the environment triage issues within your scope and escalate clearly and quickly with the context needed for others to act when an issue exceeds your ability to resolve it.
• Document what you learn - runbooks known issues environment configuration and release validation results so the Simulation Centers operational knowledge isnt held in one persons head.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency in Python for automation tooling and test development.
• Working knowledge of C; enough to read debug build and trace issues in the simulation codebase.
• Solid general networking fundamentals: TCP/IP UDP multicast DNS routing firewalls and the ability to diagnose latency packet loss and connectivity problems across distributed systems.
• Experience with project management issue tracking bug triage and coordinating work across engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining production or production-adjacent systems including troubleshooting under time pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication; you can escalate an issue explain a root cause and write a runbook someone else can follow.
• Eligibility to pass the security and background check requirements for sensitive information systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with modeling and simulation wargaming or distributed simulation standards (DIS HLA TENA) and platforms such as AFSIM VBS or similar.
• Test automation and CI/CD experience; building automated validation pipelines not just running them.
• Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (Terraform Ansible Docker Kubernetes).
• On-prem and cloud deployment experience.
• Observability tooling: Prometheus Grafana ELK or equivalent.
• Linux systems administration depth; comfort in mixed Linux/Windows environments.
• Prior work in a defense aerospace or classified environment.
• Active security clearance.

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 Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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