Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Full-time /London (Engineering)

About Applied Intuition Defence

Applied Intuition UK is a software and infrastructure supplier that accelerates the deployment of next-generation autonomous capabilities to the warfighter across air, land, sea, and space. A subsidiary of Applied Intuition, we deliver dual-use solutions to national security customers that build upon several years of product development and experience from commercial autonomy programs. Based in London, our seasoned defence team hails from Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, Google, Lockheed Martin, and the UK and US Armed Services. Learn more at appliedintuitiondefense.com.

As a senior cloud infrastructure engineer on the UK team, your job is to make everyone around you faster. You will be embedded with the engineers you support, not sat in a separate platform silo, and you will feel the same pain they do - which is exactly why you will be the one to fix it. Some days you will be designing UK-hosted infrastructure from a blank page, choosing the tools and the patterns and getting it right from the get-go rather than inheriting somebody else's shortcuts. Other days you will be standing up a secure environment for a customer, debugging a deployment that only misbehaves inside their network, or getting UK-approved AI models serving inside a secure programme. You will also work closely with the infrastructure teams across the rest of Applied Intuition, taking their best ideas, sending yours back, and making sure the UK team is never the one waiting. Our customers are defence primes and national security organisations, and the systems you build are the ones they actually use.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

Lead the design, development and architecture of the UK-hosted infrastructure used across our internal development teams

Build and deploy our products into cloud, on-premise and air-gapped environments using infrastructure as code, and support them through their whole operational life

Host UK securely approved AI models for use in secure programmes

Improve developer effectiveness by spotting the friction nobody else has bothered to fix and building the tooling that removes it

Take ownership of our CI/CD systems and deployment strategies, and help wire up Hardware in the Loop (HiL) integration

Debug and profile the awkward edge cases in distributed systems, and lead the response when something breaks

Work closely with product managers and customers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions

Contribute your solutions back to the wider organisation and make their products better in the process

We’re looking for someone who has:

Bachelor's degree in computer science/related engineering field

5+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying infrastructure for a production software product

Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP), and the judgement to know when a managed service is the right answer and when it isn't

Strong experience designing and building infrastructure with IaC tools such as Terraform, and a preference for describing systems in code over clicking through consoles

Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker and containerised systems, and experience deploying microservice-based applications on them

Confidence in one or more scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) and with Linux-based operating systems (Ubuntu, RHEL, etc.)

Proven ability to take initiative in a fast-paced environment, and to leave systems better documented than you found them

Travel Requirements:

General willingness to travel for company business between our offices, as well as to customer sites

Security Requirements:

Must have ability to hold UK Security Clearance (current or previous preferred)

Nice to have:

7+ years of experience across infrastructure, platform or DevOps roles

Experience deploying Kubernetes on bare metal or into air-gapped and classified networks

Familiarity with applying security and regulatory controls, and with vulnerability patching across base OS images, networking and IAM

Experience with Bazel, Nix and other similar technologies

Experience serving ML models in production, or building data and real-time analysis pipelines

Experience working on projects related to national security for one or more government agencies

Prior work in autonomy, robotics or simulation products

References who will describe them as low-ego, highly motivated, thoughtfully opinionated, strong communicators and curious listeners

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.

FOR US-BASED ROLES: Applied Intuition is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive application and interview experience to applicants who are disabled veterans and other applicants with disabilities or medical conditions. Reasonable accommodations are available, requesting an accommodation will not affect your candidacy in any way, and you are not required to disclose the nature of your disability or medical condition in order to make a request. If you require an accommodation please contact careers@applied.co. We will work with you!