Overview
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy sof
Full job description
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description: Cloud Engineering builds and operates the infrastructure and environments that support Shield AI’s software products and platforms.
As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure and environments used to develop, test, integrate, and host Shield AI’s software products and platforms. You will work across AWS infrastructure, shared development environments, and supporting platform services to improve how these systems are provisioned, operated, and maintained.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on infrastructure automation, reliability, and operational stability. You will troubleshoot problems across infrastructure and services, improve existing systems, and work with engineering teams to build infrastructure that meets their development and integration needs.
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 other 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 to implement infrastructure and access controls that meet security and compliance requirements
Monitor resource utilization and identify opportunities to improve infrastructure cost and capacity
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
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