Cloud Operations Engineer

Summary

Join Ladder's engineering team as a GCP Cloud Operations Engineer and help us revolutionize the life insurance industry. You will design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP, ensuring optimal performance and scalability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build critical services, troubleshoot issues, and optimize costs. This remote role requires 5+ years of GCP cloud operations experience and expertise in deploying and monitoring services on GCP. Ladder offers excellent benefits, including comprehensive health coverage, flexible paid time off, stock options, a 401k match, and paid parental leave. We also provide a supportive remote work environment with stipends and fun company events.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible paid time off
• Stock options
• A rewarding 401k match program
• Commuter benefits
• A stocked, beautiful new office
• Paid parental leave
• Work-from-home flexibility and support
• Fun company-wide events