Infrastructure Reliability Engineer

As an Infrastructure Reliability Engineer at Anduril Industries, you will own the lifecycle of core self-hosted developer tools like GitHub Enterprise, CircleCI, and Artifactory. Your key duties will include designing automated systems for patch management and backups, scaling infrastructure to support rapid growth, managing environments with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform, and ensuring high service availability and reliability through defined service level objectives.

To be considered for the Infrastructure Reliability Engineer role at Anduril Industries, candidates should have experience operating production systems using Docker and Kubernetes, proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools. Strong automation skills, scripting experience in languages like Python or Bash, and a familiarity with CI/CD pipelines are also important for the role.

An Infrastructure Reliability Engineer plays a critical role in Anduril Industries' mission by ensuring that the technological foundations of our defense systems are robust, secure, and efficient. By managing and optimizing our self-hosted developer tools, you will help engineers work more effectively and contribute to the development of advanced military solutions that can be deployed quickly and reliably.

Preferred qualifications for the Infrastructure Reliability Engineer position at Anduril Industries include prior experience with GitHub Enterprise Server, Artifactory, or CircleCI, familiarity with security best practices, and the ability to support large engineering teams in fast-paced environments. Experience in hybrid software engineering and DevOps roles is also advantageous.

Anduril Industries offers an impressive benefits package for Infrastructure Reliability Engineers, including comprehensive healthcare options with minimal costs, generous vacation policies, mental health resources, a professional development stipend, and significant family planning support. Additionally, the role includes a competitive salary and the opportunity for equity grants for full-time employees.

When answering this question, highlight your hands-on experience with Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration. Discuss specific projects where you deployed applications, managed scalability, and ensured uptime. Provide examples of challenges you faced and how you overcame them to maintain reliability.

Express your understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code principles and detail how you have used Terraform to manage and provision infrastructure. Include examples of how it improved deployment consistency and reduced time spent on manual configurations.

Discuss your strategies for maintaining security, such as regular updates, vulnerability assessments, and implementing firewalls. For availability, talk about your methods for load balancing, redundancy, and backup strategies you've used to ensure minimal downtime.

Share a specific example that illustrates your troubleshooting process, including how you identified the issue, the tools and methods you used to diagnose it, and the steps you took to resolve it. Emphasize your ability to work under pressure and collaborate with others.

Highlight your understanding of SLOs, including metrics like uptime, response time, and error rate. Discuss how establishing SLOs helps improve service reliability and customer satisfaction, and provide examples of SLOs you've set in past roles.

Emphasize your commitment to ongoing professional development. Discuss specific sources such as conferences, online courses, webinars, or books that you utilize to keep your knowledge current and how you apply this knowledge in your work.

Discuss the importance of collaboration with teams such as development, operations, and security. Provide examples of how teamwork has improved the quality of your work and led to more successful outcomes in your projects.

Provide insights into current trends, such as increased complexity of cloud infrastructures, security concerns, and the need for automation. Discuss how you plan to address these challenges in your role as an Infrastructure Reliability Engineer.

Explain your approach to prioritizing based on urgency, impact, and resource availability. Discuss any tools or methodologies you use such as Kanban or Agile principles to maintain organization and efficiency.

Share a detailed example of an incident you managed, outlining your role in the response, the steps you took for root cause analysis, and how you communicated with stakeholders. Highlight the lessons learned and how you used that experience to improve future incident management.