Director of IT Infrastructure Services
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define and execute the multi-year strategy for enterprise networking, cloud platforms, data centers, identity, and infrastructure automation. You will lead infrastructure leaders, establish service-management standards, oversee operational resilience and major incidents, manage budgets and vendors, and communicate infrastructure performance and risks to executives.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud platform, networking, or systems engineering experience
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing managers and multi-functional infrastructure organizations
- Experience developing enterprise infrastructure strategies across hybrid cloud, network, data center, and platform services
- Expertise in enterprise network architecture and operations
- Experience designing, operating, and governing cloud platforms
- Experience leading DevOps and infrastructure automation initiatives
- Background in on-premises compute, storage, virtualization, backup, recovery, and data-center operations
- Experience establishing service-management practices
- Experience implementing high-availability, business-continuity, and disaster-recovery capabilities
- Experience partnering with Cybersecurity on infrastructure security requirements
- Financial acumen managing infrastructure budgets, cloud consumption, vendor contracts, and licensing
- Executive communication skills
- Experience with high-severity incident response and post-incident improvement
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the multi-year IT infrastructure strategy and roadmap
- Lead, mentor, and scale the Infrastructure Services leadership team
- Establish service-delivery models, operational standards, escalation paths, and service-level objectives
- Oversee network engineering and secure, resilient connectivity
- Lead cloud platform engineering, provisioning, governance, observability, and cost optimization
- Drive infrastructure automation through infrastructure as code, configuration management, CI/CD, and self-service provisioning
- Oversee on-premises compute, storage, virtualization, backup, recovery, and data-center operations
- Establish capacity, availability, resiliency, and disaster-recovery strategies
- Embed security-by-design and least-privilege principles into infrastructure architectures
- Lead infrastructure incident management, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions
- Monitor infrastructure KPIs and provide executive reporting
- Own infrastructure budgets, forecasting, vendor negotiations, licensing, and cost optimization
- Maintain architecture principles, technical standards, reference designs, and lifecycle roadmaps
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity