Staff Cloud Operations Engineer - Remote, GCP, 24/7 On-Call

Branch; United States; Remote; USD 185,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Home-office stipend

401k

Job summary

Branch is seeking a Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team. You will design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure in GCP, ensuring security, compliance, and reliability while building automation to reduce toil.

You will collaborate with multiple teams across the company, drive incident response, and support 24/7 on‑call operations, focusing on observability and scalable systems in a remote US environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Five+ years in cloud infra engineering (preferably GCP).
• Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing.
• Proficient in Python, Bash, Java, or Go.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Security collaboration with networks/app teams is a plus.
• Familiar with AI tools to accelerate work.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-functional work across departments and automate workflows (crons, n8n, Airflow).
• Run outage incidents and manage incidents per compliance requirements.
• Maintain and improve incident response tooling and observability across the stack.
• Ensure cloud infra meets security and regulatory standards.
• Design, implement, and maintain GCP infrastructure for scalability and availability.
• Build automation to reduce toil and enable self-healing production systems.
• Troubleshoot issues and provide support for cloud infra and observability tools.

Skills

GCP

Observability

Python

Bash

Java

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

AI tooling

On-call

Education

Bachelors degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Git

Job description

Branch is seeking a Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team. You will design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure in GCP, ensuring security, compliance, and reliability while building automation to reduce toil.

You will collaborate with multiple teams across the company, drive incident response, and support 24/7 on‑call operations, focusing on observability and scalable systems in a remote US environment.