Linux Product Team Lead (AU)

This is a hands-on technical leadership role leading the C2 Linux Product Team at DroneShield, owning the Linux platform that underpins the DroneSentry-C2 ecosystem. The role focuses on Linux platform engineering, reliability, security, automation and observability across development, production and deployed customer environments. You will define technical direction, standards and roadmap, and collaborate with Software, AI, Security, Infrastructure and Product teams to deliver secure, scalable and highly reliable Linux platforms and services. The role reports to the Director, AI Systems & Platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the Linux Product Team
• Define technical direction, standards and roadmap for the Linux platform
• Own the configuration, tuning and lifecycle of Linux systems across DroneShield products
• Build and maintain secure Linux images for server, edge and embedded platforms
• Optimise performance, reliability and security across Linux platforms
• Automate provisioning, patching, configuration management and diagnostics
• Lead OS hardening initiatives including secure boot, TPM integration and platform security controls
• Design and implement observability, monitoring and telemetry standards
• Establish reliability engineering practices including service health metrics, alerting and incident management
• Maintain Ubuntu Classic and Ubuntu Core platforms across x86 and ARM environments
• Provide Level 3 support for OS and system-level issues
• Collaborate with Software, AI, Security and Product teams to ensure platform stability, scalability and traceability
• Document architecture, standards, operational procedures and recovery processes

Requirements

• Extensive experience operating and debugging Linux systems (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL or Yocto-based)
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including reliability, scalability, observability, operational excellence and supply chain security
• Experience leading engineers, technical projects and/or platform teams
• Deep understanding of Linux internals including kernel, init systems, udev, cgroups and bootloaders
• Proficiency in Bash scripting and at least one additional language (e.g. Python, Go)
• Experience with secure boot, TPMs, disk encryption and OS-level security controls
• Experience building or managing custom Linux images for embedded or production use
• Experience defining and operating SLOs, SLIs, alerting frameworks and incident management processes
• Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and observability platforms
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, platform and production issues
• Familiarity with PXE, systemd services, Kickstart/preseed or cloud-init workflows
• Strong networking fundamentals including routing, DNS, firewalls and VLANs
• Experience with containerisation, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices

Nice to have

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling
• Experience building Linux-based products, appliances or embedded systems
• Experience supporting edge computing or air-gapped environments
• Experience with AWS, hybrid cloud or distributed infrastructure
• Familiarity with software supply chain security and SBOM management
• Background in secure infrastructure or regulated environments (e.g. defence, critical systems)
• Contributions to open-source Linux or OS infrastructure tooling
• Experience building developer platforms and internal engineering tooling