Staff Cloud Operations Engineer

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. Coordinate with technical and non-technical staff across departments .

Posted 9/30/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $185,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in cloud infrastructure engineering, particularly in GCP, with a focus on automation, compliance, and incident response. Proficient in observability tools and capable of collaborating across technical and non-technical teams to ensure scalable and secure infrastructure.

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Cloud Infrastructure EngineeringGCPObservability ToolsPythonDocker

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Hard Skills

Cloud Infrastructure EngineeringGCPPythonBashJavaGoDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsible

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentorshipTechnical Leadership

Tools & Technologies

N8nAirflowCI/CD PipelinesGitClaudeCopilotGemini

Industry Keywords

Compliance RequirementsIncident ResponseMonitoringLoggingTracingNetwork SecurityApplication Security

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAnsibleChefCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Coordinate with technical and non-technical staff across departments
Partner on workflow automation using crons, n8n, and Airflow
Run outage incidents and maintain the incident response process and tooling
Work within compliance requirements and coordinate sprints
Collect metrics and report to management
Maintain documentation
Ensure accurate, reliable, and proactive monitoring across the application stack
Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with security and regulatory standards
Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP
Ensure infrastructure is scalable, secure, and highly available
Build automation to reduce toil and enable infrastructure self-healing during production incidents
Troubleshoot issues and support cloud infrastructure and observability tools

Requirements

What you’ll need

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, including Claude, Copilot, and Gemini
Ability to work in a 24/7 on call rotation
Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer
Nice to have: familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git
Nice to have: collaboration experience with Data Engineering teams
Nice to have: experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Chef
Nice to have: previous experience in a 24/7 on call environment
Nice to have: mentorship or technical leadership experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
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