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Full-timeRemote, US

Staff Cloud Operations Engineer

at Branch

Branch is seeking a Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join their Cloud Ops team. This role involves cross-functional collaboration, maintaining cloud infrastructure in GCP, and ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and highly available.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Effectively coordinate with both technical and non-technical staff across departments
  • Partner on workflow automation (crons, n8n, Airflow) that bridges infrastructure and business processes
  • Run outage incidents and work within compliance requirements
  • Coordinate sprints and collect metrics to report up to management
  • Maintain documentation
  • Maintain and improve incident response process and tooling
  • Ensure accurate, reliable, and proactive monitoring across the application stack
  • Ensure that cloud infrastructure is compliant with relevant security and regulatory standards
  • Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP
  • Ensure cloud infrastructure is scalable, secure, and highly available
  • Build automation that reduces toil and enables infrastructure to self-heal during production incidents
  • Troubleshoot issues and provide support for cloud infrastructure and observability tools

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Professional, expert level experience in cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP) with minimum 5 years experience
  • Experience with observability tools and processes, such as monitoring, logging, and tracing
  • Strong experience in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java, or Go
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience collaborating with network and application security teams
  • Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate work
  • Ability to work in a 24/7 on call rotation
  • 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)
  • Experience with 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)
  • Mentorship or technical leadership experience (nice to have)

Benefits

  • 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
  • Base salary range $185-200k

Skills

GCPPythonBashJavaGoDockerKubernetescronsn8nAirflowClaudeCopilotGeminiCI/CDGitTerraformAnsibleChef

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