Staff Cloud Operations Engineer
$185,000–$200,000 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to coordinate cross-functional work, design and maintain GCP-based cloud infrastructure, and implement automation to reduce toil and enable self-healing. The role includes incident response, compliance, monitoring, and collaboration across teams; it requires strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Bash, Java, Go), container tech (Docker, Kubernetes), and experience with CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible/Chef. The engineer will leverage AI tools (Claude, Copilot, Gemini) in automation, and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Professional, expert level experience in cloud infrastructure engineering (preferably GCP) with minimum 5 years experience
- Experience with observability tools and processes, such as monitoring, logging, and tracing
- Strong experience in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java, or Go
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience collaborating with network and application security teams; ability to make sound security-informed judgments is a plus
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools to accelerate work. The company provides access to Claude, and integrates Copilot and Gemini into automation workflows; we expect engineers to use these effectively and look for opportunities to apply them
- Ability to work in a 24/7 on call rotation
- Nice to Haves: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git; Collaboration experience with Data Engineering teams; Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef; Previous experience in a 24/7 on call environment; Mentorship or technical leadership experience; comfortable directing the work of junior engineers on a project basis, though this is not a day-to-day people management role
Additional Requirements
- Must be currently authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship or transfer
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