Staff Cloud Engineer — AWS, Terraform & Kubernetes

Shield AI; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

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Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI, a leading defense-tech innovator, is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across multiple products. You will manage AWS-based environments, automate provisioning with Terraform, and enhance observability while ensuring security controls align with compliance requirements.

Based in San Diego, this hands-on role focuses on reliability, cost efficiency, and strong collaboration with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Ops.

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 episodic 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

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Automation

Observability

Cost optimization

Security/compliance

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Shield AI, a leading defense-tech innovator, is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across multiple products. You will manage AWS-based environments, automate provisioning with Terraform, and enhance observability while ensuring security controls align with compliance requirements.

Based in San Diego, this hands-on role focuses on reliability, cost efficiency, and strong collaboration with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Ops.