Cloud Operations Administrator - II
Bellevue, WA
Full Time
1 day ago
Mid LevelEngineering
$80K - $120K

USD per year

Job Description

Overview

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Join a strong community of top talent driven to build the simplest scalable cloud. We value winning together—learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for dreamers and builders worldwide.

Role Summary

We want people passionate about troubleshooting complex problems with systems, networking, and storage at scale. The Cloud Operations Administrator - II is a seasoned system administrator who helps keep the cloud running smoothly. Reporting to the manager of Cloud Operations, this role monitors and provides first-response to all cloud health issues impacting customer experience. You will collaborate across teams to research and troubleshoot issues from single droplets to cloud-wide disturbances. The workweek spans five days and may include weekends.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Ensuring maximum uptime for global infrastructure
  • Automating processes and building tools to improve operational efficiency
  • Coordinating operational work across teams to improve the platform with minimal impact

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

  • Solid experience with Linux operating systems or Networking and day-to-day upkeep
  • Familiarity with virtualization technologies and troubleshooting virtual machine instances
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies and troubleshooting containers
  • Familiarity with IPv4 Networking and troubleshooting (CCNA equivalent)
  • Basic storage concepts and technologies
  • Experience with monitoring systems and incident management
  • Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or Go
  • Experience with GPU hardware or AI/ML, and Kubernetes
  • A passion for good documentation and open communication
  • Proven ability to learn

Compensation Range:

  • $107,000 - $134,000

This is a hybrid role

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

  • Innovate with purpose as part of a cutting-edge technology company simplifying cloud and AI.
  • Prioritize career development with access to conferences, training, education reimbursement, and LinkedIn Learning.
  • Benefit from competitive well-being programs including Employee Assistance Program, flexible time off, local meetups.
  • Receive rewards including salary based on market data, potential bonuses based on performance, equity grants upon hire, and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Equal opportunity employer committed to non-discrimination.

Additional Notes:

  • Application limit: maximum 3 positions within any 180-day period.
  • Role based at Bellevue, WA office requiring 3 days per week on-site.
How to Apply
About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean provides simple tools and predictable pricing for infrastructure management, enabling digital native enterprises to develop, manage, and scale applications using compute, storage, and networking solutions. They offer scalable cloud compute products including Droplets (virtual machines), Kubernetes managed service, serverless Functions, Gradient AI Agentic Cloud for AI apps, managed hosting with App Platform, backups & snapshots, networking solutions (firewalls, load balancers, VPC), managed databases (MongoDB, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL), storage options (Spaces object storage and Volumes block storage), developer tools (API, CLI), and management tools (monitoring, projects, IAM).

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