6 hours ago
Base Salary
$141k - $212k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable platform infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and private-cloud environments.
- Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, automation frameworks, and self-service platform capabilities.
- Build and maintain container and Kubernetes platforms, including deployment automation, configuration management, observability, and lifecycle management.
- Create standardized paved paths for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and shared platform services.
- Establish platform standards for reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Support capacity planning, performance tuning, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, and platform lifecycle management.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, alerting, and developer-facing platform services.
- Troubleshoot complex platform and infrastructure integration issues and lead root-cause analysis.
- Maintain architecture diagrams, technical documentation, operational procedures, and reusable implementation patterns.
- Evaluate technologies, provide technical guidance, and contribute to platform architecture, standards, and roadmap decisions.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and scheduled after-hours maintenance as needed.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience designing and operating production infrastructure in Azure, AWS, or comparable public-cloud environments.
- Strong experience developing reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and automation with Terraform and Ansible.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or another programming language used for platform tooling and automation.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines, self-service infrastructure capabilities, or developer-facing platform services.
- Strong Linux systems administration experience, including deployment, configuration, troubleshooting, patching, and performance analysis.
- Working knowledge of cloud and enterprise networking, including VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing, VPNs, load balancing, DNS, and firewalls.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for production platforms.
- Understanding of platform security, identity and access management, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration practices.
- Ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment.
- Strong technical documentation, communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, regulated or classified environments, GitOps, Helm, policy as code, secrets management, service catalogs, internal developer portals, VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, hybrid-cloud architectures, reliability practices, and relevant cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, or platform-engineering certifications.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees are eligible for bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
- Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
About Shield AI
Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defense agencies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, it operates across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology is used in operational deployments.