Work with cutting-edge AI technology that helps make the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) develops market-leading counter-drone solutions used by military organisations, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure operators, and law enforcement operating in some of the most challenging and high-stakes environments in the world. Employees work at the forefront of innovation, solving complex technical problems and delivering mission-critical capabilities where performance, reliability, and speed matter.
As an ASX200-listed company and the world's only publicly listed pure-play counter-drone business, DroneShield is experiencing rapid growth. Revenue increased from A$57 million in **** to more than A$217 million in ****, supported by record profitability, a global sales pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and annual R&D; investment of over A$50 million.
Since ****, DroneShield has grown from 11 employees to more than 550 globally, with operations across Australia, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, supporting customers in over 70 countries.
The role is based at DroneShield's Sydney headquarters, which houses corporate, commercial, engineering, and operational teams supporting the company's global growth and customer base.
About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help build the foundations that enable DroneShield's engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable and secure products. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on Linux platforms, reliability engineering, observability, automation, developer enablement and platform security. You will play a key role in delivering security-focused engineering initiatives across DroneShield's product and internal platforms, helping ensure our systems remain secure, resilient and operationally effective. The role combines deep technical problem solving with a strong engineering mindset. One day you may be troubleshooting low-level Linux performance issues, the next building Go-based tooling,



improving platform observability, designing reusable service patterns, or helping teams adopt reliable operational practices.
Responsibilities, Duties And Expectations
Design, implement and own platform Secure-by-default standards, patterns and engineering best practices
Build reusable libraries, services and tooling that can be adopted across multiple products and teams
Build Security automation and operational controls
Develop automation and internal tooling using Go and other appropriate technologies
Troubleshoot complex Linux, infrastructure and application issues across development, test and production environments
Design and implement observability solutions including metrics, logging, tracing and alerting
Help engineering teams establish meaningful monitoring, operational visibility and reliability practices
Build and maintain platform services supporting software development and deployment workflows
Partner with engineering teams to identify common challenges and create scalable platform solutions
Improve platform reliability, performance and operational efficiency through automation and standardisation

Contribute to architecture decisions and technical direction across platform and product teams

Document standards, patterns, operational processes and engineering guidance

Mentor engineers and promote operational excellence across the organisation
Qualifications, Experience And Skills
Strong Linux systems engineering and troubleshooting experience
Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering or systems engineering




Professional software development experience
Experience with cloud environments
Experience building reusable tooling, libraries or internal developer platforms
Experience designing and implementing observability solutions
Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing and alerting practices
Experience working with distributed systems and production environments
Strong scripting and automation skills
Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools
Experience supporting engineering teams and driving platform adoption
Strong understanding of networking concepts including DNS, routing, firewalls and load balancing
Excellent troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving capabilities
Solid communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Desirable
Experience operating Kubernetes platforms
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry or similar observability tooling
Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
Experience with CI/CD or modern software delivery platforms
Experience with AWS or hybrid cloud environments
Experience supporting edge or disconnected environments
Experience within defence, critical infrastructure or highly regulated environments
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📌 Senior Platform Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Droneshield
📍 New South Wales