Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer - UK Government

What we're looking for:

We need someone with 1-5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering or SRE who has hands-on experience building, operating, and maintaining large-scale production systems. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment with on-call responsibilities and have a track record of automating manual processes and improving system reliability. Bonus points if you have defense tech or government experience and Kubernetes expertise.

What you'll do:

- Build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for Palantir platforms across UK government deployments

- Take ownership of production infrastructure reliability including monitoring, alerting, configuration management, and upgrades

- Work closely with forward deployed teams and product teams to participate in sensible, scalable systems design and share responsibility for diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues

- Deploy new Palantir products across production environments and perform migrations to the latest infrastructure types

- Lead automation efforts to reduce manual operations — developing novel solutions using Palantir's Foundry and Apollo platforms, including industry-leading LLM and AI technology

- Debug, improve, and optimise Palantir's services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability

- Participate in an on-call rotation (approximately every 5-6 weeks) providing technical troubleshooting support for production issues

Key details:

- UK Security Clearance (SC or above) required, or ability to obtain clearance

- Hybrid role based in London — in-office expected, especially for classified work and on-call rotations

- Relocation assistance available for candidates outside London

- Compensation includes base salary (£90,000–£105,000 GBP) plus RSUs