Platforms Engineer  (USA)

Work with cutting edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world’s most challenging technical problems in the 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.

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, DroneShield is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.

About the role

DroneShield 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 DroneShield global Platform team. 

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.

Note for recruitment agencies: we do not accept floated candidates from external recruiters unless they were instructed to do so.