Staff Cloud Engineer (R5801)

The role

You will design, build and operate cloud infrastructure and environments that Shield AI's software products are developed, tested and hosted on. The work is hands-on, focused on automation, reliability and operational stability.

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 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 on infrastructure and access controls that meet security and compliance requirements
• Monitor resource utilization and identify ways 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 for full-time regular employees
• Benefits for full-time regular employees
• Equity for full-time regular employees
• Temporary benefits package for temporary employees, applicable after 60 days of employment

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
• Pay depends on factors such as skill set, level of experience, 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 and synthetic reality technologies.