# Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, New Grad - UK Government

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re looking for Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineers who can help us build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services for Palantir platforms, products, and deployments.

As a Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, every day is different! You will be developing software and providing high-quality support for software systems that are critical to solving our government’s greatest challenges.

## Core Responsibilities

- Handle support and operations of Palantir software, including monitoring and alerting, configuration management, and upgrades

- Deploy new Palantir products at customer deployments and perform migrations to the latest infrastructure types

- Debug, improve, and optimise Palantir’s services and infrastructure with a focus on long-term reliability and scalability

- Reduce manual operations and automate workflows, processes, and/or runbooks where possible

- Provide technical troubleshooting support for production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on operations. Participate in a support on-call schedule

- Develop novel solutions in Palantir’s Foundry and Apollo platforms to solve infrastructure challenges

## What We Value

- Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using observability tools and service logs

- Ability to identify and automate highly manual tasks, driving ongoing improvements within and across teams

- Comfort with large scale production systems and technologies - for example, load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, or configuration management

- Proficiency with programming languages such as Java, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Go or similar languages and be comfortable coding and/or utilizing tooling built in these languages

- Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in multi-functional teams

## What We Require

- Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.

- Strong coder with shown proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.

- Active UK Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a UK Security clearance.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- Bash
- JavaScript
- Go
- Computer Science
- Mathematics
- Software Engineering
- Physics
- Data Science
- UK Security clearance

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