Principal Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Engineering to lead mission-critical high-visibility engineering initiatives across the this role you will operate at the intersection of technical depth executive leadership and operational execution.

Specifically you will function in three primary capacities as Chief of Staff (15%) to the department headdriving strategic planning org-wide operating cadences executive alignment and unblocking critical internal engineering efforts. Simultaneously you will own InfraEngs Operational Excellence (OE) charter (25 - 35%) across Cloud Platform Networking and Datacenter/On-Prem functions driving rigor throughout the organization to ensure enterprise-grade reliability and QOS paces our audacious expansion and growth. You will also directly quarterback high-visibility flagship programs (50-60%) ranging from critical reliability and resilience efforts cross-cutting architectural migrations and manufacturing enablement.

Curating the rhythm that produces speed accuracy executive sponsorship and trust:

• Partner directly with the Head of Infrastructure Engineering to translate organizational vision into prioritized technical roadmaps resource allocations and cross-team execution plans.
• Execute and continuously tune the departments operational rhythm including executive business reviews operational reviews and C-level briefings spanning complex engineering initiatives.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and unblock dependencies across InfraEng in order to deliver value greater than the sum of individual teams/capabilities.
• Spearhead strategic initiatives vendor and service provider restructurings and cost-optimization programs to maximize efficiency without compromising security or deployment velocity.

Defining measuring and continuously improving the processes and technologies that achieve unreasonably high SLOs SLAs and QoS.

• Define launch scale and measure Operational Excellence (OE) processes and mechanisms across all networking cloud platform and datacenter functions.
• Identify and scope tooling and automation opportunities that continuously lessen human intervention as a success dependency.
• Institute systemic availability frameworks observability and incident recovery strategies and automated zonal failure detection and mitigation standards.
• Lead high-leverage operational forums (e.g. Weekly Infrastructure Operations Reviews) engineering rigor inspections post-incident reports and root-cause remediations.
• Design and implement (organization and/or enterprise-wide) process standards common ways of working where none exist today.

Single Threaded Owner (STO) and organizational API for initiatives such as:

• Directly execute high-stakes time-critical engineering programs spanning hybrid infrastructure Factory Systems and Manufacturing networks sovereign defense enclaves multi-cloud user enablement.
• Quarterback strategic responses to systemic enterprise-wide risks orchestrating cross-functional technical remediations at scale.
• Drive technical readiness and architecture validation for complex customer scenarios and rapid Department of Defense / warfighter scenario builds on modern infrastructure.
• Champion foundational modernization programs including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) least-privilege automation.

• 10 years of technical program management engineering or engineering leadership experience driving complex high-impact programs across distributed systems cloud infrastructure and enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrated experience acting as a strategic advisor Principal TPM or Chief of Staff counterpart to executive engineering leaders managing cross-organizational strategy headcount/resource prioritization and executive reporting.
• Deep hands-on expertise building and running Operational Excellence (OE) Site Reliability (SRE) or High Availability (HA) frameworks across multi-region cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and hybrid/datacenter environments.
• Proven track record leading large-scale incident mitigation failure testing and automated resilience initiatives with aggressive recovery time objectives.
• Broad technical literacy spanning core IT/infrastructure domains: cloud computing architectures networking (LAN/WAN/routing/SD-WAN) compute/virtualization/Kubernetes and enterprise security/IAM.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate deep technical risk and architectural trade-offs into actionable executive-level business decisions.
• Ability to thrive in high-tempo ambiguous mission-critical environments with complete autonomy.
• Must be a U.S. Person and be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance.

• Direct experience supporting defense technology aerospace operations mission control/constellation reliability or government contracts.
• Experience designing and executing enterprise-wide security IAM/ABAC modernization or agentic AI/autonomous workflow controls at scale.
• Background in streamlining regulated SDLC/CI-CD workflows compressing deployment cycles through risk-based engineering automation.
• Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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