Platforms Engineer

About the Role

• Employment Type: Full Time
• The company is seeking a Platform Engineer with relevant experience to join the team.
• The position will report to the Director of Engineering (US).
• This role will be a key position within the company's global Platform team.

About the Company

• Work with cutting-edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place.
• This company offers an opportunity to solve some of the world’s most challenging technical problems in Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion, and distributed systems.
• Working with high-profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others, in over 100 countries around the world.
• Be part of a well-funded and agile organization, as a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team.
• They have a flat organizational structure, and the best candidates will be both creative lateral thinkers and doers.
• Their technical pursuits require us to take advantage of the absolute latest in technology and best practices to remain competitive.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

• Build, evolve, and support DroneShield’s CI/CD systems and workflows.
• Define and manage infrastructure using Terraform (AWS, on-prem, and hybrid environments).
• Improve observability stack and telemetry coverage (metrics, logs, traces).
• Build tooling and automation that reduces cognitive overhead for internal engineering teams.
• Support rollout of security and compliance practices via automated guardrails.
• Contribute to self-service internal platform capabilities to improve team velocity.
• Track and improve DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate.
• Write automation and platform tooling in Go, Python, or TypeScript to support internal systems.
• Work closely with a larger Platforms team in Headquarters to support our DroneSentry C2 and ruggedised field hardware.
• Support US based developers.
• Expected to have high-level Linux skills.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (ideally GitLab, but flexible).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform (Enterprise and Open Source).
• Programming or scripting experience with languages such as Python and Go.
• Experience with Linux based environments.
• Awareness of US Government security requirements and guidelines for hardware, OS, software and SDLC.
• Experience with Bash and one or more configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef).
• Knowledge of deploying and managing modern observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with containerisation (Docker) and knowledge of orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience applying DevSecOps principles and security best practices into pipelines and infrastructure.
• Ability to build and manage cloud and hybrid infrastructure (AWS preferred; Azure also valued).
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to a strong developer experience, with a mindset focused on reliability, simplicity, and speed.
• Understanding of platform-as-product principles and commitment to improving internal tooling quality.