Systems Administrator; R5995

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 Linked In, X, Instagram, and You Tube.

Shield AI is seeking a highly autonomous Staff Systems Administrator to serve as the accountable technical owner for enterprise IT infrastructure and end-user computing within a dedicated, security-sensitive entity environment. This senior individual contributor will design, implement, operate, secure, and continuously improve on-premises systems, cloud platforms, identity services, networks, and endpoints while preserving required legal, operational, information-security, and access boundaries.

The role combines deep infrastructure ownership with hands-on service delivery. The successful candidate will translate security and compliance requirements into durable technical controls, maintain audit-ready evidence, drive equipment and endpoint hardening, and deliver resilient support to engineering and business teams with minimal oversight.

Infrastructure Ownership (On-Prem & Cloud)

• Own and operate on-premises and cloud infrastructure, including physical and virtual servers, storage, backup platforms, identity services, core network services, and enterprise applications.
• Administer Azure and/or AWS environments with responsibility for availability, capacity, performance, monitoring, secure configuration, backup, and disaster-recovery readiness.
• Define technical roadmaps, identify operational risks, and independently drive modernization, standardization, scalability, and resilience improvements.
• Maintain accurate architecture diagrams, inventories, operating procedures, recovery documentation, configuration records, and service ownership information.
• Plan and execute infrastructure changes using disciplined change, testing, rollback, and post-implementation review practices.

Firewalled Entity and Segmented-Environment Support

• Operate technology services for a dedicated legal or operating entity with explicit separation of systems, identities, data, administration, suppliers, and access from other corporate environments where required.
• Implement and maintain approved trust boundaries, network segmentation, firewall policies, secure remote access, administrative tiers, and controlled cross-entity connectivity.
• Ensure data, devices, accounts, cloud resources, and third-party access remain within authorized entity, contractual, regulatory, and data-residency boundaries.
• Partner with Security, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and corporate IT teams to translate entity-specific obligations into practical controls, operating procedures, and evidence.
• Document and periodically validate boundary controls, data flows, privileged access paths, exceptions, and intercompany dependencies; elevate gaps and drive remediation to closure.
• Support local business continuity and operational autonomy while aligning with approved global architecture, security standards, and governance.

Security, Compliance, and Systems

• Establish, implement, and maintain secure configuration baselines for Windows, macOS, Linux, servers, network devices, cloud services, and endpoint-management platforms using recognized frameworks and vendor guidance.
• Own patching and vulnerability-remediation workflows, including asset coverage, risk-based prioritization, remediation timelines, exception documentation,…