Infrastructure Manager

Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.

Series F+Recently funded
San Diego, United States
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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About the Role

You will lead infrastructure engineers and systems administrators while owning infrastructure strategy, operations, modernization, and service delivery. You will oversee compute, storage, server platforms, recovery, data-center infrastructure, vendors, incidents, capacity, security, and lifecycle planning.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering experience
  • 4+ years leading infrastructure engineers or systems administrators
  • Enterprise compute, virtualization, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and Windows and Linux server environments
  • High availability, capacity planning, performance management, patching, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, and lifecycle management
  • Experience supporting distributed infrastructure at enterprise scale
  • Experience leading infrastructure modernization, automation, migrations, upgrades, and recovery testing
  • People leadership, vendor management, budgeting, and executive communication
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
  • Ability to travel periodically and participate in planned after-hours work or incident response

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop infrastructure engineers and systems administrators
  • Own infrastructure strategy, roadmap, standards, operating model, and service portfolio
  • Oversee enterprise compute, virtualization, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and server platforms
  • Oversee infrastructure supporting Teamcenter and other engineering platforms
  • Drive modernization, automation, standardization, observability, and technical-debt reduction
  • Establish project plans, service objectives, capacity forecasts, and lifecycle plans
  • Ensure availability, performance, security, compliance, recoverability, and supportability
  • Oversee data-center and site infrastructure
  • Lead incidents, root-cause analysis, change governance, patching, and vulnerability remediation
  • Manage vendors, contracts, budgets, forecasts, and lifecycle investments

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity