Infrastructure Lead - Hybrid Cloud & On-Prem

Shield; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking an Infrastructure Manager to lead a distributed team responsible for enterprise systems and physical infrastructure across on-prem, colocation, edge, lab, and data centers. The role partners with Cloud Platform, Network, Cybersecurity, Facilities, and engineering teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable services.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of enterprise infra experience, including 4+ years of people leadership, and a proven track record in modernization,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering with 4+ years leading engineers or admins.
• Broad experience designing and operating enterprise compute, virtualization, storage, backup, DR, and Windows/Linux servers.
• Experience leading infrastructure modernization, automation, migrations, and recovery testing with minimal business disruption.
• Ability to partner with Facilities, Network, Cloud, Cybersecurity, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a distributed team of infrastructure engineers and systems administrators.
• Own capacity planning, hiring priorities, workload balancing, and development of technical leaders.
• Own infrastructure strategy, roadmap, and service portfolio across on-prem, colocation, edge, lab, manufacturing, and hybrid environments.
• Oversee architecture, implementation, and operations for compute, virtualization, storage, backup, DR, Windows and Linux servers.
• Drive incidents, change governance, patching, and recovery testing with rapid, controlled responses.

Skills

People leadership

Infrastructure design

Hybrid environments

Cloud & on-prem

Data center operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

KVM

NetApp

Cohesity

Active Directory

Job description

Shield AI is seeking an Infrastructure Manager to lead a distributed team responsible for enterprise systems and physical infrastructure across on-prem, colocation, edge, lab, and data centers. The role partners with Cloud Platform, Network, Cybersecurity, Facilities, and engineering teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable services.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of enterprise infra experience, including 4+ years of people leadership, and a proven track record in modernization,