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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. \nAs 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 2024 to more than A$217 million in 2025, supported by record profitability, a global sales pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and annual R&D investment of over A$50 million. \nSince 2017, 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. \nThe 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. \nAbout the role \nWe are looking for a Linux Product Team Lead to lead and grow the C2 Linux Product Team, owning the Linux platform that underpins the DroneSentry-C2 ecosystem. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on Linux platform engineering, reliability, security, automation and observability across development, production and deployed customer environments. \nInitially focused on the Linux platforms supporting the DroneSentry-C2 ecosystem, the role will progressively expand to establish platform standards, Linux capabilities and engineering practices across DroneShield's broader portfolio of internal and customer-facing products. You will lead the Linux Product Team and work closely with Software, AI, Security, Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver secure, scalable and highly reliable Linux platforms and services. \nKey areas of ownership include: \nDroneSentry-C2 and ruggedised field hardware\nDevelopment and maintenance of secure Linux SOEs\nTesting Linux compatibility and performance across server and edge platforms\nInfrastructure supporting Linux device manufacturing\nSoftware supply chain security\nSecure remote access platforms\nPlatform observability, monitoring and reliability\nProviding L3 support for OS and system-level issues across production and deployed assets\nIf you're interested in solving hard problems, building platforms that need to withstand the attention of nation-state adversaries, and working alongside red and blue teams to continuously test, break and improve our systems, this is the role for you. You'll help build the platforms that power real-world defence capabilities, where security, reliability and operational excellence aren't nice-to-haves, they're mission-critical. \nThis role reports to the Director, AI Systems & Platforms. \nResponsibilities, Duties and Expectations \nLead and mentor the Linux Product Team \nDefine technical direction, standards and roadmap for the Linux platform \nOwn the configuration, tuning and lifecycle of Linux systems across DroneShield products \nBuild and maintain secure Linux images for server, edge and embedded platforms \nOptimise performance, reliability and security across Linux platforms \nAutomate provisioning, patching, configuration management and diagnostics \nLead OS hardening initiatives including secure boot, TPM integration and platform security controls \nDesign and implement observability, monitoring and telemetry standards \nEstablish reliability engineering practices including service health metrics, alerting and incident management \nMaintain Ubuntu Classic and Ubuntu Core platforms across x86 and ARM environments \nProvide Level 3 support for OS and system-level issues \nCollaborate with Software, AI, Security and Product teams to ensure platform stability, scalability and traceability \nDocument architecture, standards, operational procedures and recovery processes \nQualifications, Experience and Skills \nExtensive experience operating and debugging Linux systems (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL or Yocto-based)\nStrong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including reliability, scalability, observability, operational excellence and supply chain security\nExperience leading engineers, technical projects and/or platform teams\nDeep understanding of Linux internals including kernel, init systems, udev, cgroups and bootloaders\nProficiency in Bash scripting and at least one additional language (e.g. Python, Go) \nExperience with secure boot, TPMs, disk encryption and OS-level security controls\nExperience building or managing custom Linux images for embedded or production use \nExperience defining and operating SLOs, SLIs, alerting frameworks and incident management processes\nExperience with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and observability platforms\nExperience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, platform and production issues\nFamiliarity with PXE, systemd services, Kickstart/preseed or cloud-init workflows\nStrong networking fundamentals including routing, DNS, firewalls and VLANs\nExperience with containerisation, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices \nDesirable \nExperience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling\nExperience building Linux-based products, appliances or embedded systems\nExperience supporting edge computing or air-gapped environments\nExperience with AWS, hybrid cloud or distributed infrastructure\nFamiliarity with software supply chain security and SBOM management\nBackground in secure infrastructure or regulated environments (e.g. defence, critical systems)\nContributions to open-source Linux or OS infrastructure tooling\nExperience building developer platforms and internal engineering tooling \nNote for recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters unless specifically instructed.\nData Privacy\nDroneShield Group Pty Ltd collects and processes personal information for recruitment and hiring purposes. Where applicable, personal information is processed on the basis of DroneShield's legitimate interests in assessing and selecting candidates for employment. 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