Branch
Financial Services
StaffCloudOperationsEngineer
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“Staff Cloud Operations Engineer at Branch. Skills: Cloud Operations, GCP, Infrastructure Engineering, Automation. Coordinate with technical and non-technical staff. Partner on workflow automation”
Industry & Context.
Troubleshoot issues
24/7 on call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience, Minimum 5 years experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, Experience with observability tools and processes, Experience in at least one programming/scripting language, Experience with containerization technologies
Nice to Have
Professional, expert level experience in GCP, Ability to make sound security-informed judgments, Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Familiarity with Git, Collaboration experience with Data Engineering teams, Experience with automation and configuration management tools, Previous experience in a 24/7 on call environment, Mentorship or technical leadership experience
What You'll Do.
Coordinate with technical and non-technical staff
Partner on workflow automation
Work within compliance requirements
Collect metrics for management reporting
Maintain documentation
Maintain incident response process
Improve incident response tooling
Ensure proactive monitoring
Ensure cloud infrastructure compliance
Design cloud infrastructure in GCP
Implement cloud infrastructure in GCP
Maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP
Ensure infrastructure scalability
Ensure infrastructure security
Ensure infrastructure availability
Build automation to reduce toil
Enable infrastructure self-heal
Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure issues
Provide support for cloud infrastructure
Provide support for observability tools
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional collaboration; Partnering on automation
Process & Methodology
Coordinating sprints
Full Job Description
About us: Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products. Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture. We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together. Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans. About the role: We're looking for a Staff Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Cloud Ops team Key Responsibilities: Effectively coordinate with both technical and non-technical staff across departments; this role involves a good amount of cross-functional collaboration, including partnering on workflow automation (crons, n8n, Airflow) that bridges infrastructure and business processes. Comfortable with the process side of an Ops team: running outage incidents, working within compliance requirements, coordinating sprints, collecting metrics to report up to management, and maintaining documentation. Maintain and improve incident response process and tooling, ensuring accurate, reliable, and proactive monitoring across the application stack. Ensure that our cloud infrastructure is compliant with relevant security and regulatory standards. Design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure in GCP. Ensure our cloud infrastructure is scalable, secure, and highly available. Build automation that reduces toil and enables infrastructure to self-heal during pro
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