Staff Systems Administrator (5996)

Shield AI
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Documentation","Prioritization","Risk communication","Stakeholder management","Incident response"]

Own and operate enterprise IT infrastructure across on-prem and cloud, including servers, storage, backup, identity services, networks, and end-user systems. Administer Azure and/or AWS environments for availability, security, monitoring, and disaster-recovery readiness. Implement segmented, firewalled entity environments and hardened identity/access controls. Maintain architecture documentation, run disciplined infrastructure changes, manage endpoint protections and patching, and provide incident response and audit-ready evidence with minimal oversight.

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Shield AI
Shield AI
15 hours ago

Staff Systems Administrator (5996)

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Job Summary

Own and operate enterprise IT infrastructure across on-prem and cloud, including servers, storage, backup, identity services, networks, and end-user systems. Administer Azure and/or AWS environments for availability, security, monitoring, and disaster-recovery readiness. Implement segmented, firewalled entity environments and hardened identity/access controls. Maintain architecture documentation, run disciplined infrastructure changes, manage endpoint protections and patching, and provide incident response and audit-ready evidence with minimal oversight.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and operate on-prem and cloud infrastructure, including physical/virtual servers, storage, backups, identity services, networks, and enterprise applications.
  • •Administer Azure and/or AWS environments for availability, capacity, performance, monitoring, secure configuration, backup, and disaster recovery readiness.
  • •Drive modernization and infrastructure risk planning, including defining roadmaps, identifying operational risks, and executing resilient scalability and resilience improvements.
  • •Implement and maintain firewalled, segmented entity environments with trusted boundaries, firewall policies, secure remote access, and controlled cross-entity connectivity.
  • •Harden and operate endpoints and identity controls: manage patching and vulnerability remediation, endpoint protections, logging/telemetry, audit-ready evidence, and participate in incident response and corrective actions.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of experience in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, enterprise IT operations, or a closely related discipline.
  • •Independently owning production IT infrastructure and end-user environments in a complex, regulated, segmented, or security-sensitive organization.
  • •Hands-on expertise with Windows, macOS, and Linux, including server administration/virtualization and Azure and/or AWS, plus Active Directory and Entra ID (or equivalent).
  • •Experience with system and endpoint hardening, configuration baselines, patch management, vulnerability remediation, encryption, endpoint detection and response, and least-privilege controls.
  • •Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, VPNs, segmentation, firewall policies, and secure remote access).
Experience:12+ yearsEnterprise ITRegulated environmentsSecurity-sensitive organizationsCloudOn-prem
Skills:DocumentationPrioritizationRisk communicationStakeholder managementIncident response
Certifications:MicrosoftAWSVMwareCiscoCompTIA Security+CISSPCISMGIACITIL
Tech Stack:AzureAWSWindowsMacOSLinuxActive DirectoryEntra IDIntuneJamfPowerShellBashPythonSIEMPrivileged-access managementData-loss preventionCertificate managementNetwork-access controlGitHubAzure DevOpsCI/CD

Company Brief

Shield AI
Develops AI-powered autonomy and software for military aircraft and drones to enable autonomous ISR and combat missions, integrating perception, navigation, and mission planning for defense customers.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Diego, United States
Founded: 2015
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