Build and operate the infrastructure behind Praetorian's autonomous defence systems — deployed on-premises and at the edge.
About Praetorian
Praetorian Aeronautics builds advanced autonomous aerial systems designed to protect and defend against the rapidly evolving threat of drone warfare.
Headquartered in Adelaide, with offices in Melbourne and Darwin, we're building an integrated ecosystem of counter-autonomy systems that let defence operators detect, assess and defeat autonomous threats in contested environments.
This role sits across all four systems, building the infrastructure that gets our software running reliably in the field.
The Role
Our systems run on hardware in vehicles, ground stations and test ranges, not in a cloud data centre.
You'll own how we build, deploy and run technology across the company: the pipelines that take our Rust and Python software from commit to field-ready, the networks and servers our teams depend on, and the systems that get software onto hardware in manufacturing and production.
You'll work with autonomy, robotics, command-and-control and production teams to make deployment reliable, repeatable and secure, from the lab to the production line to disconnected environments in the field.
What You'll Do
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software deployed to embedded and on-prem hardware
Design and run company infrastructure, including servers, networks and internal tooling, using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management
Improve how software and firmware are loaded, versioned and tracked on hardware through manufacturing and production




Set up monitoring, logging and observability across lab, production and field systems
Build infrastructure for edge and air-gapped environments, with security and compliance in mind
Identify bottlenecks in how we build and ship, and drive improvements across teams
What We're Looking For
Strong experience in DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering
Strong experience with on-prem or edge infrastructure, comfortable working close to hardware without cloud tooling to fall back on
Proficiency in Linux systems administration, networking and server infrastructure
Experience with containerisation and configuration management (e.g. Docker/Podman, Ansible)
A systems-thinking approach: you look at how the whole pipeline works, not just your piece of it
Australian citizen, eligible to obtain and maintain an AGSVA security clearance
Nice to Have
Experience with cross-compilation for embedded targets
Experience supporting manufacturing or production environments (e.g. test stations, firmware flashing, traceability)
Experience with air-gapped, classified or disconnected networks
Experience supporting systems in degraded or bandwidth-limited (DDIL) environments
Experience with Rust or Python
Background in defence, aerospace or robotics
Why Praetorian
Market-competitive salary and employee share option plan (ESOP)
Work on advanced autonomy and defence technology with a small, highly technical team
Real ownership and influence as we scale
Professional development and learning opportunities
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📌 Devops Engineer (Adelaide)
🏢 Praetorian Aeronautics
📍 Adelaide