Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & Automation

Shield; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

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Equity

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Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, engineer, and support enterprise infrastructure across offices, data centers, and hybrid cloud platforms. The role emphasizes hands-on leadership while defining scalable, secure infrastructure standards to support Shield AI’s growth.

The position is based in San Mateo, CA (on-site) with regular travel to other Shield AI locations. You will lead AD, compute, storage, and backup initiatives and mentor engineers across the Cloud &

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure in production environments.
• Advanced experience administering and engineering Microsoft Active Directory, including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, and replication.
• Strong experience with enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage platforms (VMware/Hyper-V/KVM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC).
• Strong Windows Server administration and Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu).
• Experience designing backup, replication, and disaster recovery solutions with RTO/RPO planning and testing.
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform/Ansible/PowerShell/Python/Bash.
• Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure across on-premises and AWS/Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical resource on the Cloud & Infrastructure team, designing and implementing solutions for complex infrastructure requirements.
• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize Active Directory and core identity infrastructure (domain services, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, replication, cloud identity integration).
• Engineer and operate enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage infrastructure for business and engineering workloads.
• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms with capacity planning and data protection.
• Engineer and maintain compute platforms across data centers, offices, and hybrid clouds, including VDI and GPU-accelerated workloads.
• Perform capacity planning and sizing for new workloads and site expansions across data centers.
• Design and maintain data center and colocation infrastructure, including lifecycle management and resiliency.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity and Network Engineering on hardening, connectivity, and ownership boundaries.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Written and verbal communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

KVM

NetApp

Pure Storage

Dell EMC

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Bash

AWS

Azure

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, engineer, and support enterprise infrastructure across offices, data centers, and hybrid cloud platforms. The role emphasizes hands-on leadership while defining scalable, secure infrastructure standards to support Shield AI’s growth.

The position is based in San Mateo, CA (on-site) with regular travel to other Shield AI locations. You will lead AD, compute, storage, and backup initiatives and mentor engineers across the Cloud &