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Staff Cloud Engineer (R5801)

Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Core Services & Infra
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San Diego, CA, San Mateo, CA$150k - $230kFull Time EmployeePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Cloud Engineer role responsible for designing, building, and operating Shield AI’s cloud infrastructure and environments across AWS, with a focus on infrastructure automation, reliability, and operational stability.

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

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:AWSKubernetesInfrastructure as Code
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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