Infrastructure Engineer
Reston, VAFull-time$166–220K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed 1w ago
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Anduril’s Intelligence Systems team develops specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community customers. The Infrastructure Engineer will advance Kubernetes orchestration across GCP and bare-metal deployments, own the full cluster lifecycle, and apply GitOps and Infrastructure as Code practices for reliable, repeatable workloads. The role also partners with Edge-Cloud teams to address deployment challenges and support on-premise edge nodes.
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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.
ABOUT THE TEAM 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.
ABOUT THE JOB
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.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Container orchestration across cloud and failover-edge: cluster lifecycle, GitOps, workload reliability.
- Manage a helm mono-repo and implement Kubernetes best practices in managing dynamic configurations.
- Partner with the Edge-Cloud Reliability pod on deploying/reconciling workloads to on-prem nodes.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret / SCI Clearance.
- Mid-level: Kubernetes, containers, GitOps (Flux/Argo or successor), IaC.
- Comfortable spanning cloud and and bare metal environments.
US Salary Range $166,000—$220,000 USD
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:
Benefits At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,472 open Infrastructure Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$166–220K/yr
- Virginia median$120–195K/yr166 salary ranges
- US median$122–219K/yr3,676 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $193K, is 22% above the Virginia median midpoint ($158K) — in the top quarter of Infrastructure Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 188 open Infrastructure Engineer jobs in Virginia and 4,472 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Amazon23 open
- Oracle16 open
- General Dynamics Information Technology12 open
- Experience
- Infrastructure Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (3,434 postings).
- Education
- 1,030 of the 4,472 open Infrastructure Engineer jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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