Cloud Operations Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure utilizing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) on GCP.

• Manage and enhance our Kubernetes platform, focusing on cluster operations, workload configuration, and service mesh (Istio).

• Develop and refine internal tools that simplify cloud complexities and enhance the developer experience.

• Collaborate with product engineering teams to comprehend service deployment requirements and deliver infrastructure solutions.

• Monitor platform health using Datadog; proactively identify and resolve performance, availability, and security issues.

• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; conduct blameless post-mortems to eradicate recurring issues at their root cause.

• Define and monitor service-level indicators and objectives (SLIs/SLOs) for critical platform components.

• Implement and enhance alerting, dashboards, and runbooks that minimize mean time to resolution.

• Integrate security best practices into infrastructure workflows (DevSecOps) as a design principle, rather than an afterthought.

• Assist in maintaining cloud security posture, IAM hygiene, and policy guardrails throughout our cloud environment.

• Stay updated on cloud security developments and actively communicate risks to the team.

• Execute and uphold our automated disaster recovery processes.

• Collaborate effectively with product engineering teams to understand their requirements and alleviate infrastructure friction.

• Clearly document systems, processes, and architectural decisions to ensure knowledge is shared rather than siloed.

• Propose enhancements to tools, architecture, and processes, and assist in driving these improvements to completion.

• Stay current with the evolving cloud-native ecosystem and share relevant knowledge with the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• Over 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or a similar field.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production settings, including cluster management, workloads, and networking.

• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code tools, especially Terraform.

• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure).

• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or a similar language.

• Experience with contemporary observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, or similar).

• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration.

• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or similar).

• Exceptional communication skills — able to write clearly, ask insightful questions, and explain complex systems in an accessible manner.

• AI-Augmented Development: Capability to demonstrate the use of AI-enabled development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to streamline coding, debugging, and infrastructure-as-code authoring.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• 401(k) matching.

• Flexible work hours.

• Paid time off.

• Professional development opportunities.