Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HavocAI is a leader in all-domain collaborative autonomy, focusing on military and commercial-grade autonomous systems. They are seeking a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to design and operate the cloud platform that powers these systems, ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-effective infrastructure while collaborating with various teams to support mission-critical workloads.
Responsibilities
- Drive execution and technical excellence across cloud platform projects
- Set infrastructure standards, conduct design and code reviews, and guide architectural decisions
- Shape the cloud platform roadmap in partnership with product and engineering leadership
- Foster a culture of ownership, quality, automation, and continuous improvement
- Design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
- Build and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms, including EKS, and container workflows for application teams
- Build self-service tooling and paved paths that enable teams to deploy and operate services safely
- Ensure the platform reliably supports both application and data workloads
- Design platform capabilities with reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency in mind
- Optimize cloud systems for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling limits, and reliability risks
- Establish reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response
- Improve observability, maintainability, and operational readiness across cloud platform services
- Partner with backend, SRE, data, autonomy, and security teams to deliver platform capabilities across the stack
- Support end-to-end system design from edge devices to cloud infrastructure
- Coordinate across teams to build and maintain release processes and CI/CD pipelines
- Help align platform capabilities with product, engineering, security, and mission needs
- Enforce secure cloud practices, including IAM least privilege, secrets management, and network segmentation
- Maintain high standards for automation, testing, observability, documentation, and infrastructure reliability
- Support technical reviews, design discussions, and production readiness efforts
- Build systems with security, scalability, and long-term maintainability in mind
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in cloud platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or related engineering roles
- Deep expertise with AWS core services, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and managed data services
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes, including EKS, and containerized environments
- Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages for platform tooling and automation
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and distributed systems fundamentals
- Ability to drive projects from concept through production
- Strong technical judgment and ability to operate independently in fast-moving environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance if required
- Experience supporting autonomy, robotics, simulation, real-time systems, or mission-critical platforms
- Experience designing multi-account AWS organizations and landing zones
- Familiarity with observability tooling at scale, including metrics, logging, and tracing
- Knowledge of AWS GovCloud or compliance-driven environments, including FedRAMP, IL4, or IL5
- Experience with platform engineering, developer experience, self-service infrastructure, or paved-path tooling
- Experience working in small, fast-moving engineering teams or high-growth technology companies
- Active or prior security clearance
Benefits
- 100% Employer paid Health, Dental and Vision Insurance for you and your families
- Life Insurance (Employer Paid)
- Ability to participate in the companies 401k program (Matching)
- Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced 2 week minimum
- Equity Package
- Work / Home Office Stipend
- Global Entry
- 16 Week Paid Parental Leave
- Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend
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