Remote Cloud Ops Engineer — Scale & Automate in GCP

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Stock options

Home-office stipend

401k

Job summary

Branch, a remote-first fintech company with teams across the U.S., seeks a Cloud Operations Engineer to join the Cloud Ops group. You will build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure, focusing on reliability, security, and automation to reduce toil and support rapid product delivery.

The role requires 3+ years in cloud infra, experience with GCP, and familiarity with observability, scripting, and containerization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, tracing (observability).
• Proficient in Python, Bash, Java, or Go.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Some exposure to security practices.
• Comfort with AI tools like Claude, Copilot, Gemini in automations.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP under senior guidance.
• Keep cloud infrastructure scalable, secure, and highly available.
• Build automation to reduce toil and improve recovery from incidents.
• Troubleshoot issues and support observability tools.
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards.
• Participate in incident response, monitoring, and alerting across stack.
• Collaborate on cross-department projects linking infra and business processes.
• Contribute to outage handling, compliance, sprint work, metrics, and docs.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Programming languages

AI tooling

On-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Branch, a remote-first fintech company with teams across the U.S., seeks a Cloud Operations Engineer to join the Cloud Ops group. You will build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure, focusing on reliability, security, and automation to reduce toil and support rapid product delivery.

The role requires 3+ years in cloud infra, experience with GCP, and familiarity with observability, scripting, and containerization.