Staff Cloud Engineer: AWS Infra, Automation & Reliability

Shieldai; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; 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 the AWS infrastructure and shared environments that power its software products. You will automate provisioning, manage lifecycle tasks, and support containerized workloads while improving observability and reliability across services.

You will collaborate with Cybersecurity, Infosec, and Enterprise Ops to implement secure, compliant infrastructure and optimize cost and capacity across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling.
• Experience operating infrastructure in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Experience implementing cloud IAM and security controls.
• Experience with AWS cost management and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure and shared development environments.
• Automate environment provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Support containerized workloads and observability across services.
• Improve reliability and efficiency of shared environments and platform services.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and enterprise teams on security controls.

Skills

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Cloud security controls

Cost optimization

AWS ecosystem

Tools

Terraform

AWS services

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate the AWS infrastructure and shared environments that power its software products. You will automate provisioning, manage lifecycle tasks, and support containerized workloads while improving observability and reliability across services.

You will collaborate with Cybersecurity, Infosec, and Enterprise Ops to implement secure, compliant infrastructure and optimize cost and capacity across teams.