Staff DevSecOps Engineer (R5824)

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. 

Job Description:

Cloud Engineering builds and operates the infrastructure and environments that support Shield AI’s software products and platforms. 

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will design, build, and automate security controls across cloud infrastructure, software delivery systems, and containerized workloads. You will partner with Cybersecurity, Infosec, Build Engineering, and product teams to turn security and compliance requirements into practical engineering controls. 

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on making secure configurations repeatable and maintainable. You will work across infrastructure, containers, CI/CD systems, and platform services to reduce security risk without creating unnecessary friction for engineering teams. 

What You'll Do:

Design and implement security controls across AWS infrastructure and platform services

Build and maintain hardened container images and secure base images for engineering and production workloads  

Integrate vulnerability, dependency, container, and configuration scanning into software delivery systems  

Automate security and compliance checks to reduce manual review and improve consistency  

Implement secrets management, identity, and access controls across infrastructure and engineering systems  

Build mechanisms for audit evidence, configuration validation, and compliance reporting   Identify security weaknesses in infrastructure, containers, and delivery systems and drive remediation with owning teams

Partner with Cybersecurity and Infosec to translate security requirements into scalable engineering controls  

Work with Build Engineering and Cloud Engineering to integrate security controls without compromising reliability or developer workflows  

At the Staff level, Define reusable patterns and drive adoption of security engineering practices across multiple teams  

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of related experience for Senior Engineer or 7+ years for Staff Engineer, or equivalent education and experience. 

Experience implementing security controls in AWS or another major cloud environment  

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure provisioning 

Experience securing containerized workloads and building or maintaining hardened container images  

Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD or software delivery systems  

Experience with vulnerability management, dependency scanning, container scanning, or configuration validation  

Experience implementing identity, secrets, and access controls in cloud or engineering environments  

Experience automating security or infrastructure tasks using Python, Go, Bash, or a similar language  

Ability to diagnose security and configuration issues across infrastructure, containers, and platform services  

Experience working with security and engineering teams to implement shared technical controls  

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience operating systems in regulated or compliance-driven environments  

Experience with Kubernetes security, workload identity, or container runtime controls  

Experience building reusable hardened images or secure infrastructure baselines used across multiple teams  

Experience with cloud security posture management, policy-as-code, or automated compliance tooling  

Experience supporting audit evidence collection or continuous compliance workflows

Familiarity with software supply-chain security, artifact integrity, o …