# Staff Cloud Engineer (R5801)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Mateo, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 182,000-274,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/82c0fcad-9d7e-4eed-a1c8-b2ce99895f16?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure and environments used to develop, test, integrate, and host Shield AI's software products and platforms.

## 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

## Required 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

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- container orchestration
- infrastructure as code
- cloud IAM
- AWS cost management

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