Staff Cloud Engineer
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure and shared environments for software development, testing, integration, and hosting. You will automate provisioning and lifecycle tasks, support containerized workloads, improve observability and reliability, resolve infrastructure issues, implement security controls, and optimize capacity and costs.
Requirements
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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 for containerized applications and workloads
- Establish and improve observability across cloud infrastructure and supporting services
- Diagnose and resolve infrastructure and environment issues
- Improve the reliability and consistency of shared environments and platform services
- Implement infrastructure and access controls that meet security and compliance requirements
- Monitor resource utilization and improve infrastructure cost and capacity
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
