Staff Cloud Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & IaC Automation

F7d8749a; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate the AWS infrastructure and development environments powering our software and platforms. You will work across AWS services, Terraform pipelines, and shared environments to improve provisioning, automation and reliability in a fast-paced defense-tech setting.

This hands-on role emphasizes infrastructure automation, observability, and cost optimization, collaborating with Cybersecurity, Infosec, and Enterprise Ops to meet

Qualifications

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

Cloud infrastructure experience

Environment lifecycle automation

Regulated environment experience

Cloud security & IAM

Cost management & optimization

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Shield AI seeks a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate the AWS infrastructure and development environments powering our software and platforms. You will work across AWS services, Terraform pipelines, and shared environments to improve provisioning, automation and reliability in a fast-paced defense-tech setting.

This hands-on role emphasizes infrastructure automation, observability, and cost optimization, collaborating with Cybersecurity, Infosec, and Enterprise Ops to meet