# Staff Cloud Engineer

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** San Diego, CA, San Mateo, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $152k – $228k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Infrastructure As Code, Container Orchestration, Cloud Iam, Access Controls, Infrastructure Security, Observability, Capacity Planning, Cost Optimization
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Designs, automates, and operates AWS infrastructure, shared development environments, and container platforms. The role requires strong experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, environment lifecycle automation, cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization.

## Job Description

## 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 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.

## Requirements
- 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.

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