Linux Product Team Lead

Work with cutting-edge AI technology that helps make the world a safer and more secure place. 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. As 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. Since 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. The 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. About The Role We 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. Initially 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. Key Areas Of Ownership Include DroneSentry-C2 and ruggedised field hardware Development and maintenance of secure Linux SOEs Testing Linux compatibility and performance across server and edge platforms Infrastructure supporting Linux device manufacturing Software supply chain security Secure remote access platforms Platform observability, monitoring and reliability Providing L3 support for OS and system-level issues across production and deployed assets If 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. This role reports to the Director, AI Systems & Platforms. Responsibilities, Duties And Expectations Lead and mentor the Linux Product TeamDefine technical direction, standards and roadmap for the Linux platformOwn the configuration, tuning and lifecycle of Linux systems across DroneShield productsBuild and maintain secure Linux images for server, edge and embedded platformsOptimise performance, reliability and security across Linux platformsAutomate provisioning, patching, configuration management and diagnosticsLead OS hardening initiatives including secure boot, TPM integration and platform security controlsDesign and implement observability, monitoring and telemetry standardsEstablish reliability engineering practices including service health metrics, alerting and incident managementMaintain Ubuntu Classic and Ubuntu Core platforms across x86 and ARM environmentsProvide Level 3 support for OS and system-level issuesCollaborate with Software, AI, Security and Product teams to ensure platform stability, scalability and traceabilityDocument architecture, standards, operational procedures and recovery processes Qualifications, Experience And Skills 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 securityExperience leading engineers, technical projects and/or platform teamsDeep understanding of Linux internals including kernel, init systems, udev, cgroups and bootloadersProficiency in Bash scripting and at least one additional language (e.g. Python, Go)Experience with secure boot, TPMs, disk encryption and OS-level security controlsExperience building or managing custom Linux images for embedded or production useExperience defining and operating SLOs, SLIs, alerting frameworks and incident management processesExperience with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and observability platformsExperience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, platform and production issuesFamiliarity with PXE, systemd services, Kickstart/preseed or cloud-init workflowsStrong networking fundamentals including routing, DNS, firewalls and VLANsExperience with containerisation, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices Desirable Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management toolingExperience building Linux-based products, appliances or embedded systemsExperience supporting edge computing or air-gapped environmentsExperience with AWS, hybrid cloud or distributed infrastructureFamiliarity with software supply chain security and SBOM managementBackground in secure infrastructure or regulated environments (e.g. defence, critical systems)Contributions to open-source Linux or OS infrastructure toolingExperience building developer platforms and internal engineering tooling Note for recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters unless specifically instructed. 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