Cloud Operations Engineer I

About the role

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean, where a strong community of top talent builds the simplest scalable cloud. We value winning together while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for dreamers and builders worldwide. If you love troubleshooting complex systems, networking, and storage at scale, this role is for you.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure maximum uptime for our global infrastructure.
• Automate processes and build tools to improve operational efficiency.
• Coordinate operational work across teams to improve the platform with minimal impact.

Required profile

• Solid experience with Linux operating systems and day‑to‑day upkeep.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies and troubleshooting virtual machine instances.
• Experience with containerization technologies and troubleshooting containers.
• Understanding of IPv4 networking (CCNA‑equivalent) and basic storage concepts.
• Background in monitoring systems, incident management, and configuration management.
• Strong documentation habits and a proven ability to learn quickly.

Required skills

• Linux operating systems
• Virtualization
• Containerization
• IPv4 networking
• Storage technologies
• Monitoring and incident management tools
• Bash scripting
• Python scripting
• Ruby scripting
• Configuration management systems