Staff Cloud Engineer (R5801)

The role

This person will design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and environments used to develop, test, integrate, and host Shield AI's software products. The work is hands-on and centers on AWS, infrastructure automation, and reliability.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure and shared development and integration environments
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, and other recurring infrastructure tasks
• Build and operate infrastructure supporting containerized applications and workloads
• Establish and improve observability across cloud infrastructure and supporting services
• Diagnose and resolve infrastructure and environment issues across products and platform services
• Improve the reliability and consistency of shared environments and platform services
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Infosec, and Enterprise Ops to implement infrastructure and access controls that meet security and compliance requirements
• Monitor resource utilization and identify opportunities to improve infrastructure cost and capacity

Required qualifications

• Experience supporting shared cloud infrastructure across multiple products or engineering teams
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling
• Experience designing automated or ephemeral environment lifecycle management
• Experience operating infrastructure in regulated or compliance-driven environments
• Experience implementing cloud IAM, access controls, and infrastructure security requirements
• Experience with AWS cost management, capacity planning, or resource optimization

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity (for full-time regular employees)
• Temporary benefits package (applies after 60 days of employment for temporary employees)

Before you apply

• All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check
• Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits

About the company

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company that protects service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.