Cloud Operations Support Engineer

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Job description

About Druva

Druva is the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, helping organizations secure and recover from connected risk across data, cyber, identity, and AI. The Resilience Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native SaaS platform that delivers air-gapped and immutable protection across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, endpoint, and edge environments. Powered by Dru MetaGraph, Druva’s graph-powered intelligence layer, the platform connects critical business context so customers can understand risk, respond faster, recover cleanly, and govern data with greater confidence.

Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva helps safeguard the critical information and systems businesses depend on in an increasingly connected world.

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About the Role

As a Cloud Operations Engineer at Druva, the industry leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, you will play a key role in supporting, maintaining, and scaling cloud infrastructure within a fast-paced, complex, and FedRAMP-certified environment. Working under general guidance, your focus will be on developing professional expertise in cloud operations, addressing tasks of moderate scope, proactive monitoring, and assisting cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, highly available solutions for our growing customer community.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in weekly team meetings, working closely with devops, support, and quality assurance
• Monitor and manage all cloud infrastructure, including Friday evening deployments of production updates and OS patches
• Support various AWS and Azure services being utilized and gain foundational expertise across primary infrastructure components

Incident Response and Troubleshooting:

• Prioritize and address tickets related to server, network, and storage issues
• Provide escalated support for problems and incidents
• Ensure incident resolution is within the defined SLA (Service Level Agreement)

Automation and Monitoring:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation scripts for testing and deployment.
• Configure and deploy supporting tools for proactive monitoring, observability, and security (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus/Thanos, Wiz, OpenSearch)

Communication and Collaboration:

• Effectively communicate project updates and tasks to the Operations team and stakeholders in other departments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless cloud operations

Expectations:

• Support production deployments scheduled on Fridays between 5pm - 11pm PDT on a rotating basis
• Take responsibility for identifying and resolving vulnerabilities in the FedRAMP environment
• Develop and monitor dashboards to track real-time metrics

Experience & Skills:

• Minimum of 2 years of related experience (or an advanced degree without experience, or equivalent work experience)
• Proficiency in AWS and Azure services (or another Cloud Provider).
• Experience with containerized applications (ECS, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with observability and monitoring (Grafana, OpenSearch)
• Experience with an SIEM (Security Incident and Event Management) application
• Familiarity with one programming language (Python, Go)
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems deployments & patching (Ubuntu, RHEL)
• U.S. citizenship is required to support Federal customer engagements. Existing or ability to obtain a U.S. government security clearance (Public Trust, Secret, or higher) is a strong plus.
     

Certifications (Bonus):

• AWS, Azure, RHEL, CCNA

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Innovation is how we operate, not a side project. You’ll work in a culture that values bold thinking and continuous improvement, where global teams experiment, iterate, and turn new ideas into products customers can rely on.  

If you’re looking for high-ownership work, visible impact, and a culture that values innovation, collaboration, accountability, and growth—where you’ll be trusted to lead and empowered to build—you’ll thrive at Druva.

What We Offer

The pay range for this position is expected to be between $108,000 and $151,333/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized, non-discriminatory factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, and equity. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health and wellness benefits, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time. 

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How Santa Clara compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, Santa Clara is #46 by population, #11 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #133 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #17 for household income (#1 = highest). Its county, Santa Clara County, is #1 of 58 counties for average pay ($197,043).

The place in numbers

Santa Clara has 130,256 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.3% of the population of California. It covers 18 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 7,127 people per square mile. The median age is 34.6, 9% younger than the state median (34.6 against 37.9).

Housing

The median gross rent is $3,016 a month (rent plus utilities), 48% above the state median ($3,016 against $2,036). Over a year that is 20.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,582,600, which is 8.8 times the median household income ($178,958); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 40.8% of households own their home, 27% below the state average (40.8% against 55.9%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan area has 1,134,970 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $84,050 a year, 65% above the national median ($84,050 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are computer and mathematical (149,970 jobs, median $186,320); management (115,110 jobs, median $210,750); business and financial operations (94,210 jobs, median $125,240). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (3.9 times) and architecture and engineering (2.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($210,750) and legal ($195,190). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Santa Clara County was 4.2%. 72.2% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Santa Clara County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 58.2% drive alone, 2.5% use public transit, 2.8% walk, 25.7% work from home. 8.9% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 54% below the state average (8.9% against 19.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

65.9% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 78% above the state share (65.9% against 37.1%). 46.4% of residents were born outside the United States, 72% above the state share (46.4% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 8.4%, 30% below the state rate (8.4% against 12.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 68°F (19.8°C), and the coolest is Jan at 47°F (8.3°C). About 510 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (114 mm) and Jul the driest (0 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Sunnyvale (4 miles, similar rent); Cupertino (5 miles, rent 16% higher); Campbell (6 miles, rent 9% lower); Milpitas (6 miles, rent 3% higher). Rent differences are against Santa Clara; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Median rent in Santa Clara is $3,016 a month and median household income $178,958 (ACS 2020–2024).

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• Wages and projections: BLS OEWS (May 2025) and Employment Projections 2025–35.
• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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• BEA GDP by state and Regional Price Parities
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