Cloud Operations Engineer

Empleora; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading benefits

Job summary

Branch is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team, delivering scalable, secure cloud infrastructure on GCP and supporting our 24/7 on-call rotation. You will implement and maintain infrastructure, build automation, and ensure compliance with security standards while collaborating across teams and using AI-enabled automation tools.

The role requires 3+ years in cloud infra, experience with Docker/Kubernetes, and scripting languages; a bachelor’s degree or equivalent is

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP).
• Familiarity with observability tools: monitoring, logging, tracing.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, Java, or Go.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to security practices or teams.
• Willingness to work in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Interest in AI tools to accelerate work (Claude, Copilot, Gemini).

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP under senior engineers."
• Contribute to scalable, secure, highly available infrastructure.
• Build automation to reduce toil and improve recovery from incidents.
• Troubleshoot issues and support cloud infra and observability tools.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards.
• Follow incident response processes and monitoring across the stack.
• Collaborate on infra work and cross-department automation.
• Participate in Ops processes: outages, compliance, sprints, metrics, and documentation.

Skills

GCP

Observability

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Security practices

AI tooling

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Git

CI/CD

Job description

About us:

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products.

Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture.

We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.

Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.

About the role:

We're looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team

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.

Compensation:

The base salary range for this role is $135-150k. The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc.

Location:

This position is classified as REMOTEwithin the United States of America.

We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.

Benefits:

• Market-leading medi