Staff Cloud Operations Engineer

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EEE or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of practical experience with cloud operations (GCP) is a must.
Expertise deploying, monitoring, scaling services on GCP and a deep understanding of their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. GKE, BigQuery, VertexAI).
Understanding of standard Observability tools such as Grafana, DataDog, Sentry.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proven ability to maintain and improve infrastructure on GCP.

Design, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP, ensuring optimal performance, security and scalability.
Allocate and manage compute, storage and networking resources to meet the needs of Ladder’s applications.
Develop and implement terraform scripts and tools to streamline and simplify repetitive tasks, improving efficiency.
Set up and maintain monitoring tools to track the performance and availability of our GCP services, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Collaborate with the development and IT teams to troubleshoot and resolve incidents and minimize downtime and maintain service quality.
Monitor and analyze cloud resource usage to identify opportunities for cost savings, recommending and implementing cost optimizations.
Develop and maintain backup and disaster recovery plans to ensure data and application availability during unforeseen events.
Work closely with development, IT and business teams to ensure alignment with project goals and provide guidance on cloud best practices.
Stay up-to-date with emerging cloud technologies, platforms and trends, continuously improving our GCP operations and adapting to changing requirements.
Implement security best practices.

No preferred qualifications provided.