Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote, United States; collaboration across US and European time zones and participation in an on-call rotation are required.

Company

hirify.global provides corporate education technology for customer, partner, and employee learning programs.

What you will do

• Lead infrastructure modernization from legacy compute environments to portable, container-orchestrated infrastructure.
• Design and maintain infrastructure as code across multiple cloud providers, with a focus on portability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Improve CI/CD systems, deployment tooling, observability, monitoring, alerting, and load-testing capabilities.
• Establish and evolve SLI and SLO practices and lead incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Provide architecture guidance, mentorship, and technical direction across the Systems Engineering function.
• Partner with Security and Engineering on access controls, infrastructure hardening, compliance, cost management, and developer experience.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting highly available production infrastructure across more than one major cloud provider, with depth in AWS or Google Cloud and working fluency in the other.
• Significant production experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration, including cluster operations, workload configuration, reliability, and troubleshooting.
• Experience modernizing VM-based or legacy infrastructure toward containerized or cloud-native architectures, plus strong Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Experience operating CI/CD and deployment infrastructure, responding to incidents, diagnosing distributed-system failures, and conducting post-incident reviews.
• Strong Linux administration, scripting or programming in Ruby, Python, or a comparable language, communication skills, and experience mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience operating AWS and Google Cloud simultaneously.
• People leadership, technical leadership, or player-coach experience.
• Cloud cost management or FinOps experience at scale.
• Experience with Spinnaker, Jenkins, Ruby on Rails, SOC 2, AI-assisted development tooling, or learning management systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with distributed team members.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered for selected individual plans.
• 401(k) with matching for US-based employees.
• Flexible PTO, Calm subscription, and LinkedIn Learning.
• Personal development budgets and an annual company retreat.