Cloud Operations Engineer - Remote

Overview

We’re seeking an experienced Cloud Operations Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you’ll own and optimize the cloud infrastructure that powers our trading platform and internal services. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership, security, and product teams to design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient systems.

If you thrive in high-ownership, highly collaborative environments and love working at the intersection of infrastructure and development, we’d love to meet you.

In Short

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and AWS best practices.
• Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines for multiple environments using modern DevOps tooling.
• Collaborate with developers in executing advanced deployment strategies to ensure safe, low-downtime releases.
• Build and manage Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) rules and configurations to protect our platform from emerging threats.
• Implement observability tooling and proactive alerting around cloud infrastructure, networking, and application health.
• Provide incident response support and participate in on-call rotations.
• Proactively identify, recommend, and remediate infrastructure improvements to improve performance, security, and developer velocity.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in a CloudOps, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Deep expertise with Terraform, AWS services (EC2, ALB/NLB, RDS, VPC, WAF, CloudFront, Lambda, etc.).
• Solid end-to-end understanding of the software development lifecycle and hands-on experience implementing advanced deployment patterns (e.g. Blue/Green and Canary).
• Experience with AWS WAF management and tuning.
• Strong scripting or automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Familiarity with modern observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar).
• Comfort working in fast-paced, high-ownership, remote-friendly environments.
• Experience integrating infrastructure as code into CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, Jenkins, or similar).
• Strong problem-solving and incident management skills.

Benefits

• Topstep is an engaging working environment which ranges from fully remote to hybrid. We foster a culture of collaboration with cameras-on during meetings and a robust Slack environment for communication.
• Nine (9) Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave. Paid time off is accrued monthly.
• Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance is offered for full time employees.
• Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days. Employee referrals are bonused. Topstep offers a food and groceries budget and contributes towards health and wellness.