Remote-Canada AI-Driven DevOps & Reliability Engineer

Branch Metrics; United States; Remote; USD 86,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Branch is hiring a Senior AI DevOps & Reliability Engineer to own how software ships and runs at Branch. This DevOps-first role builds delivery platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation, while strengthening alerting and SLO practices across teams.

You will work embedded with an engineering team, modernizing environments and driving platform standards. AI-driven delivery, Terraform/CloudFormation IaC, and GitHub Actions experience are key for success.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes and AWS experience.
• Deep IaC experience (Terraform and/or CloudFormation).
• Proven CI/CD architecture experience: pipelines, quality gates, release automation.
• Experience with GitHub Actions for automated, repeatable deployments.
• Experience managing SQL and NoSQL datastores at high volume.
• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
• Working knowledge of observability stacks.
• Strong collaborator, comfortable driving alignment across teams.
• Comfortable building practices from scratch in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and expand deployment automation for on-demand and continuous releases.
• Establish release practices: progressive delivery, rollback, tracking.
• Extend automation deeper into production paths to reduce manual toil.
• Define and evolve CI/CD pipeline standards and guardrails.
• Design environments across teams, spun up per branch or PR and torn down after.
• Build with AI to set the standard for AI in DevOps and delivery agents.
• Champion IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and GitHub Actions for deployments.
• Partner with engineering teams on alerting and SLO practices; runbooks owned by teams.
• Embed with assigned eng team day-to-day on infrastructure and reliability.
• Own the DORA metrics framework and mature measurement over time.

Skills

AI-first mindset

Deployment automation design

Scripting/Automation

Observability

Cross-team collaboration

Rapid delivery

Infrastructure as code mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Claude Code

Job description

Branch is hiring a Senior AI DevOps & Reliability Engineer to own how software ships and runs at Branch. This DevOps-first role builds delivery platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation, while strengthening alerting and SLO practices across teams.

You will work embedded with an engineering team, modernizing environments and driving platform standards. AI-driven delivery, Terraform/CloudFormation IaC, and GitHub Actions experience are key for success.