Staff Cloud Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & IaC Lead

F7d8749a; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI in California is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that supports our autonomous software and platforms. You will work across AWS, shared development environments, and platform services to improve provisioning, deployment, and maintenance for multiple products.

This hands-on role emphasizes reliable automation, observability, and security. You will collaborate with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Ops to implement access controls, reduce

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 such as Terraform.
• Experience designing automated or ephemeral 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

Kubernetes

IaC tooling

Ephemeral envs

Regulated environments

IAM & security

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Shield AI in California is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that supports our autonomous software and platforms. You will work across AWS, shared development environments, and platform services to improve provisioning, deployment, and maintenance for multiple products.

This hands-on role emphasizes reliable automation, observability, and security. You will collaborate with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Ops to implement access controls, reduce