Staff Cloud Operations Engineer (Fully Remote)

Branch; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Branch is seeking a Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join the Cloud Ops team. You will collaborate across functions to automate workflows that connect infrastructure with business processes.

The role emphasizes reliability, compliance, and automation, building scalable cloud infrastructure in GCP and reducing toil through self-healing solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience.
• Extensive scripting in Python or Bash.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Comfortable with 24/7 on‑call rotation.
• Familiarity with AI tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with technical and non-technical staff to automate workflows bridging infrastructure and business processes.
• Maintain and improve incident response processes and monitoring tooling for reliability and proactivity.
• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP with self-healing automation.

Skills

Cloud infra engineering

Python scripting

Bash scripting

On-call experience

AI tooling familiarity

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP tools

Job description

• We're looking for a Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team.
• This role involves cross-functional collaboration and a focus on reliability, compliance, and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with technical and non-technical staff, partnering on workflow automation that bridges infrastructure and business processes.
• Maintain and improve incident response process and tooling, ensuring accurate, reliable, and proactive monitoring.
• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP, building automation that reduces toil and enables self-healing.

Qualifications:

• Professional, expert-level experience in cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP) with minimum 5 years experience.
• Strong experience in a scripting/programming language like Python, Bash, Java, or Go, and containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools and working in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Branch

Branch empowers workers with financial freedom by helping companies accelerate payments and providing accessible, free financial services. It is a remote-first, award-winning FinTech with employees across the U.S., fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and trust.