Senior Platform Engineer

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its 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, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

What you'll do

* 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 for engineering teams.

* Own platform initiatives from technical design and implementation through production operations and continuous improvement.

* Build and maintain container and Kubernetes platform capabilities, including deployment automation, configuration management, observability, and lifecycle management.

* Develop platform tooling and automation using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Go.

* Build standardized paved paths that simplify infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and access to shared platform services.

* Establish and maintain 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 other developer-facing platform services.

* Troubleshoot complex platform, infrastructure, and application integration issues and lead root-cause analysis.

* Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, technical documentation, operational procedures, and reusable implementation patterns.

* Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve automation, reliability, and developer productivity.

* Provide technical guidance to other engineers and contribute to platform architecture, standards, and roadmap decisions.

* Participate in an on-call rotation and scheduled after-hours maintenance as needed.

Required Qualifications

* 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 using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

* Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based platforms.

* Proficiency in Python, Go, or another programming language used to build 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

* Experience supporting commercial, government, regulated, classified, or air-gapped cloud environments.

* Experience with both Microsoft Azure and AWS, including Azure Government or AWS GovCloud.

* Experience with GitOps, Helm, policy as code, secrets management, service catalogs, or internal developer portals.

* Experience designing or supporting internal developer platforms and standardized paved-path tooling.

* Knowledge of private cloud and virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, or KVM.

* Experience defining service-level indicators, service-level objectives, incident response practices, and reliability improvements.

* Experience supporting hybrid-cloud architectures spanning public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.

* Experience within aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or other regulated environments.

* Relevant cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, or platform-engineering certifications.