Staff Cloud Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We are seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure and environments used to develop, test, integrate, and host our software products and platforms.

🏢 About Shield AI

Shield AI builds intelligent systems that protect service members and civilians. Our products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, our technology actively supports operations worldwide.

🎯 The Role

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. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on infrastructure automation, reliability, and operational stability.

✅ Key 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

🎁 Benefits

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)

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.