Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS, Terraform & Kubernetes

Shield; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and environments supporting the company’s software products. You will work across AWS infrastructure and shared development environments to improve provisioning, operation, and maintenance.

This hands-on role emphasizes infrastructure automation, reliability, and security, partnering with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Ops to meet compliance standards while optimizing costs and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting shared cloud infrastructure across multiple products or teams.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling.
• Experience designing automated or episodic 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 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.

Skills

Shared cloud infra experience

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Environment lifecycle management

Security/compliance in cloud

AWS cost management

Collaboration with cyber/IT teams

Tools

Terraform

AWS IAM

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and environments supporting the company’s software products. You will work across AWS infrastructure and shared development environments to improve provisioning, operation, and maintenance.

This hands-on role emphasizes infrastructure automation, reliability, and security, partnering with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Ops to meet compliance standards while optimizing costs and performance.