Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Hybrid Cloud & Resiliency

Shield; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

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 leads on AD, compute, storage, and DR while remaining hands-on to define scalable, secure standards.

Based in San Mateo, CA with on-site presence; travel to other offices may be required. You’ll mentor engineers, lead complex initiatives, and partner with Cybersecurity and Network teams to ensure resilience and

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 Microsoft Active Directory including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, replication.
• Strong experience with VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC or equivalent.
• Strong Windows Server admin experience and Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) proficiency.
• Experience in backup, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity with RTO/RPO planning and testing.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash or similar for automation.
• Experience supporting hybrid infra across on-premises and AWS/Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize AD and core identity infra including domain services and DNS.
• Engineer and operate enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage infra for workloads.
• Design, maintain data center and colocation infra with capacity planning and lifecycle management.
• Perform capacity planning for new workloads and site expansions.
• Design and improve backup, DR, and infrastructure resiliency with testing and documentation.
• Implement monitoring/observability for infra availability and performance.
• Develop automation patterns using Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity and Network teams; lead infrastructure initiatives end-to-end.
• Mentor engineers and produce engineering standards and operational procedures.

Skills

Leadership

Technical mentoring

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

KVM

NetApp

Pure Storage

Dell EMC

Active Directory (AD DS)

Group Policy

DNS

Replication

RHEL / Ubuntu

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Bash

AWS / Azure

VDI (Horizon / Citrix / AVD)

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 leads on AD, compute, storage, and DR while remaining hands-on to define scalable, secure standards.

Based in San Mateo, CA with on-site presence; travel to other offices may be required. You’ll mentor engineers, lead complex initiatives, and partner with Cybersecurity and Network teams to ensure resilience and