Staff Infrastructure Engineer (R6109)

The role

This role designs, engineers and supports enterprise infrastructure across offices, engineering environments, data centers and hybrid cloud platforms. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer provides senior technical leadership on the Cloud & Infrastructure team and stays hands-on.

What you will do

• Serve as a senior technical resource on the Cloud & Infrastructure team, designing solutions for complex infrastructure challenges.
• Design, deploy, administer and optimize Active Directory and core identity infrastructure.
• Engineer and operate enterprise compute, virtualization and storage infrastructure.
• Design and maintain data center and colocation infrastructure, including capacity planning and hardware lifecycle management.
• Design and improve backup, disaster recovery and infrastructure resiliency, including DR exercises.
• Implement monitoring and observability for infrastructure availability, capacity and performance.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash or similar tools.
• Support hybrid integration between on-premises infrastructure and AWS or Azure.
• Partner with Cybersecurity on hardening, vulnerability remediation and access controls.
• Lead infrastructure projects from design through implementation and mentor engineers.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure in production environments.
• Advanced experience administering and engineering Microsoft Active Directory, including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, authentication and replication.
• Strong experience with enterprise compute, virtualization and storage platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC or equivalent.
• Strong Windows Server administration experience and working proficiency with Linux systems such as RHEL or Ubuntu.
• Experience designing backup, replication, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, including RTO/RPO planning and testing.
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash or similar.
• Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure across on-premises environments and AWS and/or Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, establish engineering standards and mentor engineers.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting infrastructure in high-availability, mission-critical, manufacturing, aerospace, defense or engineering environments.
• Deep experience with one or more enterprise storage and data protection ecosystems.
• Experience designing infrastructure across multiple offices, engineering sites, laboratories and data center or colocation environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes or containerized workloads.
• Experience supporting GPU compute, high-performance computing or accelerated engineering workloads.
• Experience with VDI platforms such as VMware Horizon, Citrix or Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, VLANs and firewalls.
• Experience in security-conscious or regulated environments supporting controls aligned with NIST or CMMC.
• Relevant technical certifications such as VMware VCP, Microsoft, NetApp, AWS or Azure.

Benefits

• Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits and equity as part of the offer package.
• Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.

Before you apply

• All offers are contingent on a cleared background check and possible reference check.
• Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
• Salary depends on skill set, experience level, licenses and certifications, and work location.

About the company

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