Staff Site Reliability Engineer (GCP/Kubernetes)

Location: 100% remote within the United States; current and continued U.S. residency required

Company

hirify.global provides an integrated platform for K–12 schools, including websites, communications, mobile apps, enrollment, and marketing services.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for the Composer CMS platform and platform-wide standards in a GCP-primary, multi-cloud environment.
• Guide cloud architecture, scalability, capacity planning, cost efficiency, and highly available system design.
• Own the GKE Kubernetes platform, container reliability, network architecture, global routing, connectivity, and Cloudflare edge strategy.
• Drive reusable Terraform and Terragrunt infrastructure-as-code modules and developer enablement patterns.
• Build observability practices, define monitoring and alerting standards, and establish SLOs.
• Lead disaster recovery, high-severity incident response, on-call participation, change management, and post-incident improvements while mentoring senior engineers.

Requirements

• Expert-level GCP and broad infrastructure knowledge across the full stack.
• Expertise in Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, containerization, and Helm.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with GitLab or similar tools.
• Strong network architecture, routing, cross-cloud connectivity, edge security, and traffic management experience, including Cloudflare or similar solutions.
• Deep observability knowledge, incident leadership experience, and experience architecting highly available, fault-tolerant systems.
• Staff-level experience, including mentoring senior engineers, plus the ability to read and write basic code in environments such as Ruby/Rails, Java, and Python.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud cost allocation and control.
• Capacity planning and infrastructure forecasting experience at scale.
• Familiarity with AWS and/or Azure; the environment is GCP-primary.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote employment for eligible U.S. residents.
• Collaborative, supportive culture centered on partnership and purpose.
• Competitive benefits and professional development opportunities.
• Peer review, staged rollouts, and go/no-go gates support controlled change management.