Staff Cloud Engineer: AWS, Terraform & Automation

Shield; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers its autonomous software and platforms. You will work across AWS, Terraform, and shared development environments to improve provisioning, operation, and maintenance.

This hands-on role emphasizes automation, reliability, and observability, collaborating with Cybersecurity, Infosec, and Enterprise Ops to enforce security controls and cost efficiency across services.

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 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

Cloud infra

Kubernetes

IaC tooling

Ephemeral env lifecycle

Regulated environments

IAM & security

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers its autonomous software and platforms. You will work across AWS, Terraform, and shared development environments to improve provisioning, operation, and maintenance.

This hands-on role emphasizes automation, reliability, and observability, collaborating with Cybersecurity, Infosec, and Enterprise Ops to enforce security controls and cost efficiency across services.