Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps/Infrastructure (R3570) - Shield AI

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps/Infrastructure (R3570)
Job Location: San Diego Metro Area
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/7a193b8c-9cef-4575-a166-d12a9caa8629
Job Description: Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With nine offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the 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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
As a Hivemind Software Engineer – Infrastructure, you will design and implement engineering centric automation across the organization. You will work closely with the rest of the Software Operations team maintaining infrastructure-as-code. This role requires you to be very hands on and contribute to discussions with cross-functional teams across the organization. We embrace an attitude that focuses on solving the root cause of problems efficiently. A large part of your day to day will be building out solutions to automate infrastructure, talking to enterprise operations (IT, Cyber), and the Developer Experience team.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Own all infrastructure-as-code for Hivemind
Own the monitoring tool stack, focusing on build infrastructure metrics
Own internal build containers used by all of the Hivemind organization
Support AI engineers with any infrastructure they need
Manage and own the performance, maintenance, and administration of Hivemind enterprise infrastructure including Azure DevOps, AWS, Artifactory, Containers, K8s, etc.
Work closely with the Developer Experience and Build & Release teams to improve engineer efficiency
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 9 years and a Master’s degree; or 7 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Azure ARM, CloudFormation, Crossplane).
Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
Demonstrated proficiency in continuous integration/delivery (Github Actions, ADO, TeamCity, etc.).
Experience with a compiled programming language (e.g. C, C++, Rust, Go).
DevOps experience with a cloud service (Google, Azure, AWS).
Knowledge of APIs, web services, and identity access management.
Knowledge of containers (Docker, Podman, etc.).
Knowledge of scripting languages (Bash, Python).
Knowledge of Git.
Knowledge of monitoring tools (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, ELK, etc.).
System administration in Linux.
Desire to learn and grow on the job.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience owning build infrastructure.
Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm).
Ability to develop software, APIs, services, and tools
Proven experience owning a project from a simple idea to production product
Cloud provider certifications, e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Professional