Staff Cloud Engineer – AWS & Terraform

About the role

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.

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
• 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 profile

• 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

Required skills

• AWS
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes
• Cloud IAM and access controls
• Security and compliance
• Cost management and capacity planning
• Container orchestration
• Observability and monitoring