Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Location: Regular on-site work at customer locations in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Candidates outside commuting distance must be willing to relocate; relocation assistance is provided.

Salary: $180,000–$220,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination.

What you will do

• Operate and support mission-critical deployments across on-premise DoD environments and AWS cloud environments.
• Design and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting with observability tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana.
• Define and measure SLIs and SLOs, improve reliability practices, and establish actionable alerting.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, blameless postmortems, and After Action Reviews.
• Build secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters and cloud/on-premise environments using Terraform and Ansible.
• Automate operational work, embed RMF and STIG controls, and improve deployment and management of on-premise environments.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret clearance required; SCI eligibility is a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering with an infrastructure and operations focus.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or Bash, plus familiarity with AWS or AWS GovCloud.
• Experience with observability platforms such as the Grafana or ELK stacks or Datadog.
• Strong incident response, root-cause analysis, networking, collaboration, and continuous-improvement skills.

Nice to have

• DoD environment experience and familiarity with RMF, STIGs, or ICD 503.
• GitOps practices, sensitive-environment security design, and meaningful SLI/SLO or error-budget implementation.
• On-premise virtualization with VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, or Hyper-V.
• Service mesh experience with Istio or Linkerd and relevant AWS or Kubernetes certifications.
• Active Security+ or another DoD 8570.01-approved credential, or the ability to obtain one within three months.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first organization with flexible work hours, while this role requires regular customer-site presence.
• Unlimited PTO, health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match and eight weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Annual company summit trips and a $1,000 annual home-office budget.
• Equity participation and a culture of blameless postmortems, mentoring, and proactive reliability improvement.