Staff DevOps Engineer (AI)

Location: Fully remote; the role is offered through a B2B model.

Company

hirify.global operates an AI-powered mental healthcare platform that combines licensed providers with proprietary AI tools to deliver scalable psychiatric care in the United States.

What you will do

• Set the technical vision and roadmap for company infrastructure, including measurable goals for reliability, cost, performance, deployment health, and developer velocity.
• Run and evolve AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure, including EKS cluster management, autoscaling with Karpenter, policy enforcement with Kyverno, and zero-downtime operations.
• Own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and AWS CDK in TypeScript, as well as GitLab CI/CD templates, OIDC, and self-managed GitLab.
• Build practical observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, log pipelines, and APM.
• Maintain blue-green deployments, health-gated rollbacks, zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations, and CI migration gating.
• Partner with product engineering teams, lead security engineering in a HIPAA environment, and integrate autonomous-agent output into production workflows.

Requirements

• 6+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience with strong Linux administration, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and systems fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, production Kubernetes/EKS, cluster management, node scaling, policy enforcement, containers, networking, TLS, and DNS.
• Strong Terraform, AWS CDK in TypeScript, GitLab CI/CD, reusable pipeline templates, OIDC, and self-managed GitLab experience.
• Practical experience with monitoring, observability, secrets rotation, short-lived credentials, leak scanning, PHI-aware logging, and HashiCorp Vault as code.
• Experience with blue-green deployments, automated rollback, PostgreSQL expand/contract migrations, Docker, ECR, immutable tags, and image lifecycle management.
• Fluent Russian and English at B2 level; experience working effectively in remote, distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in HIPAA, SOC 2, or another regulated environment.
• Ansible experience for VM fleet management.
• Node.js and TypeScript application operations, including pm2 and npm.
• GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux, deeper PostgreSQL administration, or AWS certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote long-term collaboration under a B2B model.
• Health insurance after the probation period and sports and wellness compensation.
• 19 paid vacation days, four additional wellness days, and paid sick leave for the first five working days.
• Personalized English lessons via Preply and opportunities for training and career growth.
• Supportive distributed culture with thoughtful gifts and offline corporate events.