Staff DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote across Mexico. Team members within 80 kilometers of the Guadalajara office are expected to work onsite.

Company

hirify.global provides an AI-powered, conversation-centric customer experience and team collaboration platform.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and roadmap for a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform, including scaling, upgrades, and multi-tenancy.
• Establish GitOps deployment workflows and build an internal developer platform with self-service access to compute, environments, and observability.
• Design service mesh, networking, ingress, and secure communication strategies for a redundant microservices architecture.
• Define GPU scheduling, node pools, quotas, and resource management for AI/ML training and inference workloads.
• Lead capacity planning, reliability engineering, SLOs, incident response, postmortems, and cloud cost optimization.
• Set technical direction, review platform-impacting architecture, mentor engineers, and influence standards across teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years operating Kubernetes in production.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Google Cloud Platform, Terraform or Pulumi, and GitOps using Argo CD or Flux.
• Deep knowledge of container orchestration, networking, ingress, service mesh, Linux, storage, and security fundamentals.
• Experience with Nginx, Kafka, Redis, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience supporting GPU and ML/AI workloads in GKE and EKS, plus internal developer platforms or paved-road tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience; strong communication and cross-team influence skills.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes policy-as-code and security tooling such as OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or image scanning.
• AWS, GCP, or Azure certifications, or CKA/CKS certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and eligible family members.
• Life insurance, personal days, vacation days, vacation premium, food vouchers, and a matched savings fund.
• Employee Assistance Program and wellness initiatives.
• Ongoing learning, development opportunities, and career advancement.
• Results-driven, collaborative, and customer-focused working environment.