Staff Cloud Engineer (R5801)

San Mateo, Californiafull time

On Site

senior

H1B: no

Shield Staff Cloud Engineer designs, builds, and operates AWS cloud infrastructure and shared development environments for Shield AI’s software products. The role focuses on infrastructure automation, reliability, operational stability, and security compliance.

Responsibilities

Cloud Engineering builds and operates the infrastructure and environments that support Shield AI’s software products and platforms.
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. You will work across AWS infrastructure, shared development environments, and supporting platform services to improve how these systems are provisioned, operated, and maintained.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on infrastructure automation, reliability, and operational stability. You will troubleshoot problems across infrastructure and services, improve existing systems, and work with engineering teams to build infrastructure that meets their development and integration needs.
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

Qualification

Experience implementing cloud IAMExperience with AWS cost managementTemporary employee offer package

Required

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
Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.