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Senior IT Operations Engineer (R6117)

Shield AI · Dallas, Texas

CHECKED 6H AGO

Defenseonsitesenior$99k–$140k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build and sustain classified infrastructure supporting engineering work.
  • Own systems across standalone and air-gapped environments.
  • Support Hivemind autonomy and V-BAT aircraft missions.

Ideal candidate

Hands-on senior infrastructure generalist who thrives owning secure builds end-to-end. Comfortable working independently across disciplines, sweating documentation details, and delivering reliable systems ready for accreditation review.

Requirements

  • Build, improve, and sustain classified infrastructure supporting engineering work
  • Work across compute, virtualization, storage, networking, identity, endpoints, and security tooling in standalone and air-gapped environments
  • Rack and image hardware and build and harden systems
  • Automate repeatable work and troubleshoot difficult issues
  • Own work from design through testing, documentation, and support and deliver systems ready for ISSM and government assessor review

Lab profile

About Shield AI

Venture-backed defense-tech company building intelligent autonomy systems to protect service members and civilians.

What they build

  • Hivemind autonomy software
  • V-BAT aircraft
  • X-BAT aircraft

Known for

  • AI autonomy
  • Unmanned aircraft engineering
  • Aerodynamics and aerostructures
  • Simulation and synthetic reality

Key facts

  • Venture-backed
  • Offices across U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific
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