Senior Engineer Platform Infrastructure
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and improve the platform used to deploy and operate customer environments. You will develop infrastructure as code, strengthen Kubernetes platforms, automate deployments and testing, improve reliability and security, troubleshoot platform capabilities with other engineers, and document the reasoning behind platform decisions.
Requirements
- Kubernetes knowledge
- Linux knowledge
- Networking fundamentals
- Git and trunk-based development experience
- GitLab CI knowledge
- Infrastructure as Code knowledge
- Ansible knowledge
- Terraform knowledge
- Helm knowledge
- Zarf knowledge
- Container knowledge
- PKI and certificate management knowledge
- Secrets management knowledge
- Observability knowledge
- Infrastructure testing knowledge
- Distributed systems troubleshooting skills
Responsibilities
- Build and improve the platform that deploys and operates customer environments
- Develop infrastructure as code using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Zarf, Big Bang, and Packer
- Improve Kubernetes platforms and surrounding systems
- Build deployment automation that reduces risk and manual work
- Pair with engineers to design, implement, and troubleshoot platform capabilities
- Write automated tests for infrastructure and deployment workflows
- Improve observability, reliability, security, and recoverability
- Write documentation explaining platform decisions
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity