Cloud Operations Engineer

Branch

7h•$135,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

We're looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team. This role involves implementing and maintaining cloud infrastructure in GCP, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability. You will build automation to reduce toil and aid in incident recovery, troubleshoot issues, and support cloud infrastructure and observability tools. A key part of this role is ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards, participating in incident response, and collaborating with the tech organization on infrastructure work. You will also be involved in workflow automation that bridges infrastructure and business processes, and participate in Ops team processes such as outage incidents, compliance, sprint work, metrics collection, and documentation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
3+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP).
Familiarity with observability tools and processes, such as monitoring, logging, and tracing.
Working experience in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java, or Go.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Some exposure to network and application security practices or teams.
Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate work. The company provides access to Claude, and integrates Copilot and Gemini into automation workflows.
Ability to work in a 24/7 on call rotation.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git.
Collaboration experience with Data Engineering teams.
Exposure to automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
Previous experience in a 24/7 on call environment.

Responsibilities

Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP under the direction of senior engineers.
Contribute to keeping our cloud infrastructure scalable, secure, and highly available.
Build automation that reduces toil and helps infrastructure recover from production incidents.
Troubleshoot issues and provide support for our cloud infrastructure and observability tools.
Help ensure our cloud infrastructure is compliant with relevant security and regulatory standards.
Follow and contribute to incident response process and tooling; participate in monitoring and alerting work across the application stack.
Collaborate within the tech org on infrastructure work, with some exposure to cross-departmental projects, including workflow automation (crons, n8n, Airflow) that bridges infrastructure and business processes.
Participate in Ops team processes: outage incidents, compliance requirements, sprint work, metrics collection, and documentation.