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Cloud Operations Engineer

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United StatesUnited States
Full-time
$135-150k
Mid-Level

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Key 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.

Qualifications:

  • 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.

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