United States of America Remote (Country) Full-time USD 135,000 – 150,000 / year

Branch is hiring a Cloud Operations Engineer

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.

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 Have

  • 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.

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

Additional Information

  • Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer.
  • No third-parties, please.
Required Skills
Git
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Job Details
Department Cloud Ops
Category infrastructure
Posted 3 hours ago