Engineering Full-Time

Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer - UK Government

Palantir • London, United Kingdom

Company

Palantir

Annual salary

Not disclosed

Location

London, United Kingdom

Listed

87d ago

Experience:: 1 to 5 years
Workplace:: Hybrid - London office with flexibility to work from home 1-2 days per week. Palantir believes employees are "better together" and encourages in-person work to foster connectivity and innovation.
Visa:: Visa sponsorship not available
Equity:: Palantir offers Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of their total compensation package. As a publicly traded company (NYSE: PLTR), equity grants vest over time and represent a significant portion of total compensation. Equity amounts vary based on level and experience.

Hybrid in London, United Kingdom. Visa sponsorship not available.

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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

What you need

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.

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

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The listing gives the location as London, United Kingdom. Hybrid - London office with flexibility to work from home 1-2 days per week. Palantir believes employees are "better together" and encourages in-person work to foster connectivity and innovation. Visa sponsorship not available.