Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaBuild and operate the infrastructure behind Praetorian's autonomous defence systems — deployed on-premises and at the edge.About PraetorianPraetorian Aeronautics builds advanced autonomous aerial systems designed to protect and defend against the rapidly evolving threat of drone warfare.
Headquartered in Adelaide, and with offices in Melbourne and Darwin, we're building an integrated ecosystem of counter-autonomy systems — Arrow, Dagger, Hadrian and Venator — that let defence operators detect, assess and defeat autonomous threats while maintaining situational dominance in contested environments.This role sits across all four systems, building the infrastructure that gets our software running reliably in the field.The RoleOur systems run on-prem and at the edge — on hardware in vehicles, ground stations, and test ranges, not in a cloud data centre.
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll build and maintain the CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and infrastructure that get Rust and Python software from commit to field-ready reliably and repeatably, working closely with engineers across autonomy, robotics, and command-and-control teams to keep systems observable, testable,



and deployable in disconnected or bandwidth-constrained environments.What You'll DoBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software deployed to embedded and on-prem hardwareDesign infrastructure-as-code and configuration management for non-cloud, edge, and air-gapped environmentsSet up monitoring, logging, and observability across distributed field and lab systemsWork with engineers to package, version, and deploy software reliably to physical hardwareWhat We're Looking For5+ years experience in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineeringStrong experience with on-prem or edge infrastructure — this is not a cloud-native roleProficiency with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentalsExperience with containerisation and configuration management toolsComfort working close to hardware, with limited or no cloud tooling to fall back onNice to HaveExperience with Linux, Nix or cross-platform system developmentExperience with air-gapped, classified, or disconnected network environmentsExperience with GPS-denied communicationExperience with Rust or PythonBackground in defence, aerospace, or robotics environmentsCompetitive salary and employee share option plan (ESOP)Work on advanced autonomy and defence technologyJoin a small, highly technical engineering teamReal ownership and influence as Praetorian scalesProfessional development and learning opportunities
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📌 Lead Devops Engineer (Adelaide)
🏢 Praetorian Aeronautics
📍 Adelaide