DevOps Cloud Engineer (Remote - USA)

Braintrust; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

US Cold is seeking a DevOps/Cloud Engineer to design and operate our multi-region cloud infrastructure powering B2B platforms. You will own CI/CD pipelines, API gateways, and automation across NodeJS and Python stacks.

You will collaborate with security and engineering teams to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and proactive observability using Azure Monitor. This role emphasizes scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, cloud engineering or platform operations.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud platforms.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar.
• Hands-on containerization and orchestration experience.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and access control.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Azure Monitor).
• Strong scripting or automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure for B2B platforms.
• Build CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable delivery of APIs and integrations.
• Manage API gateways, load balancing, and traffic routing.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance metrics.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and uptime SLAs.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code.
• Partner with security teams to implement access controls, secrets management, and compliance requirements.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Optimize cloud costs and performance.

Skills

Azure cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization & orchestration

Networking & security

Observability (Azure Monitor)

Scripting & automation

API platforms & integration

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

NodeJS

Python

Azure Monitor

Job description

Who We Are

US Cold owns and operates one of the most complex temperature-controlled logistics networks in North America. Every day, our systems coordinate the storage and movement of food at national scale across a network of state-of-the-art distribution centers, including multiple highly automated warehouse facilities.

We continue to advance our core warehouse and logistics platforms. Our current focus is on modular, event-driven, API-first and cloud architecture. We continue to enhance reliability and accelerate engineering productivity by strengthening our SRE and AI practices. This is a large investment in innovation to continue to drive operational excellence at our facilities.

If you want to build durable systems that operate in the physical world at scale, this is that opportunity.

Who We Are

US Cold owns and operates one of the most complex temperature-controlled logistics networks in North America. Every day, our systems coordinate the storage and movement of food at national scale across a network of state-of-the-art distribution centers, including multiple highly automated warehouse facilities.

We continue to advance our core warehouse and logistics platforms. Our current focus is on modular, event-driven, API-first and cloud architecture. We continue to enhance reliability and accelerate engineering productivity by strengthening our SRE and AI practices. This is a large investment in innovation to continue to drive operational excellence at our facilities.

If you want to build durable systems that operate in the physical world at scale, this is that opportunity.

The Role

The DevOps / Cloud Engineer is responsible for building and operating the cloud infrastructure that powers US Cold’s B2B platforms, including APIs, portals, and integration services. This role focuses on reliability, scalability, security, automation, and observability to ensure high availability and performance across customer-facing systems.

What You Will Own

We are embarking on a multi-year modernization effort running alongside live operations.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure for B2B platforms.
• Build CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable delivery of APIs and integrations.
• Manage API gateways, load balancing, and traffic routing.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance metrics.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and uptime SLAs.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code.
• Partner with security teams to implement access controls, secrets management, and compliance requirements.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Optimize cloud costs and performance.

Technical Environment

• IBMi, Azure, and OCI multi-region infrastructure
• GitHub Actions and Jenkins for CI/CD
• Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code
• NodeJS, Python, NextJS, and React
• IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
• DB2, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Snowflake
• AS2, SFTP, and API integration with external systems
• Observability using Azure Monitor

What We Are Looking For - the ideal candidate will have or be able to complete the below qualifications:

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or platform operations.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud platforms
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling (Jenkins, Github Actions or similar).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and access control concepts.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Azure Monitor preferred)
• Strong scripting or automation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting API platforms and integration services.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform or similar)
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC2 or ISO.
• Experience supporting high-availability, customer-facing platforms.
• Background in enterprise or regulated environments.

What Success Looks Like

• Stable, secure, and scalable B2B platforms.
• High system availability and performance.
• Faster deployment cycles with minimal risk.
• Strong operational visibility and proactive issue detection.

Why This Role Is Different

• You will deploy, monitor and tune internal and external facing applications using latest cloud technologies
• You will use AI-assisted tools (Azure Monitor, Copilot, etc.) to develop and enhance solutions used by our employees and customers
• Your decisions will have an immediate impact on our teams, our systems, and the warehouses moving food across the country