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Full-timeRemote, US

Cloud Operations Engineer

at Branch

Branch is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to join their Cloud Ops team, focusing on implementing and maintaining cloud infrastructure in GCP. This role involves building automation, troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues, and participating in incident response processes while collaborating across the tech organization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP under the direction of senior engineers
  • Contribute to keeping 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 cloud infrastructure and observability tools
  • Help ensure 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
  • Ability to work in a 24/7 on call rotation

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 (company provides access to Claude, and integrates Copilot and Gemini into automation workflows)
  • Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git (nice to have)
  • Collaboration experience with Data Engineering teams (nice to have)
  • Exposure to automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef (nice to have)
  • Previous experience in a 24/7 on call environment (nice to have)

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $135-150k
  • Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Stock options
  • Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription
  • Monthly home-office stipend
  • 401k (TransAmerica)
  • 12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
  • Flexible time off + sick and safe time
  • 11 paid company holidays
  • Branch@Branch Same Day Pay Option
  • Remote-first company with employees located throughout the U.S.

Skills

GCPPythonBashJavaGoDockerKubernetesn8nAirflowClaudeCopilotGeminiGitTerraformAnsibleChef

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