Staff Infrastructure Engineer: Hybrid Cloud & Data Center

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

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, engineer, and support enterprise infrastructure across offices, engineering environments, data centers, and hybrid cloud platforms. This role is based in San Mateo, CA, with regular on-site presence required.

You will lead Cloud & Infrastructure efforts, overseeing Active Directory, compute, virtualization, and storage, while advancing backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure standards to support Shield AI’s growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure in production environments.
• Advanced experience administering and engineering Microsoft Active Directory, including AD DS, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, and replication.
• Strong experience with enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, or equivalent.
• Strong Windows Server administration experience and working proficiency with Linux systems such as RHEL or Ubuntu.
• Experience designing and implementing backup, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions, including RTO/RPO planning and testing.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure across on-premises environments and AWS and/or Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, establish engineering standards, troubleshoot ambiguous problems, and mentor other engineers.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and support enterprise infrastructure across offices, engineering environments, data centers, and hybrid cloud platforms.
• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize Active Directory and core identity infrastructure, including domain services, Group Policy, DNS, authentication, replication, and cloud integration.
• Engineer and operate enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage infrastructure supporting business, engineering, and mission-critical workloads.
• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms, including capacity planning, performance, availability, data protection, replication, and lifecycle management.
• Engineer and maintain Windows and Linux server infrastructure across Perform capacity planning and infrastructure sizing for new workloads, engineering environments, site expansions, and data center deployments.
• Design, deploy, and maintain data center and colocation infrastructure, including server and storage platforms, rack-level deployments, capacity planning, hardware lifecycle management, resiliency, and coordination with supporting teams and external providers.
• Perform infrastructure capacity planning and sizing for new workloads, engineering environments, site expansions, and data center deployments.
• Lead infrastructure projects and technical initiatives from design through implementation, including architecture, standards, operational documentation, and handoff procedures.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance while remaining hands-on with infrastructure engineering and implementation.

Skills

Active Directory

Compute

Virtualization

Storage

Backup & DR

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

KVM

NetApp

Pure Storage

Dell EMC

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, engineer, and support enterprise infrastructure across offices, engineering environments, data centers, and hybrid cloud platforms. This role is based in San Mateo, CA, with regular on-site presence required.

You will lead Cloud & Infrastructure efforts, overseeing Active Directory, compute, virtualization, and storage, while advancing backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure standards to support Shield AI’s growth.