Platforms Engineer

Work with cutting edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. Drone Shield (ASX:

DRO) 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.

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

*** Relocation assistance is available***

Drone Shield is seeking a Platform Engineer with relevant experience to join the team. The position will report to the Director of Engineering (US).

The Platform team is a nimble, specialized team creating customer Product platforms and constantly improving developer experiences and our CICD systems. This role will work closely with the broader Platforms Team, Software Engineers, and Field Service Engineers. It will impact the quality of products, speed of process and Engineering velocity.

Key responsibilities include building and maintaining CICD systems and following a dev-ops approach to support and improve our engineer’s experience. Supporting Field Service Engineers and Linux Product provisioning processes. Executing on strategy and feeding back improvements. The ideal candidate should have demonstrated experience with both on-premise bare metal systems and Cloud services alike; deep expertise as a Linux engineer and creating CICD developer experiences that consistently improve Developer Experience.

This position offers the opportunity to provide input into Product strategy.

• Work closely with a larger Platforms team in Headquarters to support our Drone Sentry C2 product and ruggedized field hardware
• Expected to have high level Linux skills
• Automate provisioning, patching, and system diagnostics
• Maintain and evolve custom Linux images based on Ubuntu Classic and Ubuntu Core, for both x86 and ARM platforms
• Provide Level 3 support for OS and system-level issues across production and deployed assets
• Build, evolve, and support Drone Shield’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).
• Support rollout of security and compliance practices via automated guardrails.
• Track and improve DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate.
• Write automation and platform tooling in Go, Python, or Type Script to support internal systems.
• Support US based developers

• Extensive experience operating and debugging Linux systems (Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Classic, Debian, RHEL, or Yocto-based)
• Experience with secure boot, TPMs, disk encryption, and OS-level security controls
• Ability to build and manage bare metal, cloud and hybrid infrastructure (AWS preferred; Azure also valued).
• Strong hands‑on experience with CI/CD tooling (ideally Git Lab, 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 Bash and one or more configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Salt Stack, Puppet, Chef).
• Working knowledge of system observability, logging, and performance analysis tools
  · Experience with containerization (Docker) and knowledge of orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Understanding of core networking fundamentals (IP routing, DNS, iptables/nftables, bonding/VLANs)
• Awareness of US Government security requirements and guidelines for hardware, OS, software and SDLC.

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