Software Development Engineer, DevOps (US Federal) (Kubernetes)

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States; employees may be required to work on site at client locations in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area. The role combines in-person time and remote work, with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field.

Salary: $137,000–$205,400 annual base pay for the primary location; $123,900–$222,000 for additional U.S. locations.

Company

hirify.global is a Fortune 500 company providing an AI-powered platform for managing people, money, and business operations.

What you will do

• Operate and improve a cloud-native technology platform deployed across public clouds including AWS and GCP.
• Build reliable, scalable, and secure Kubernetes-based platform services and deployment tooling.
• Automate multi-stage, SLO-gated deployments and reduce operational toil.
• Develop SLIs, SLOs, observability architecture, runbook automation, and reliability processes.
• Define SRE standards, service benchmarks, and automation for platform teams moving services into production.
• Participate in two-week Scrum sprints and a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required because the role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance is required; an active TS/SCI with CI Poly is preferred.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent education.
• 4+ years of DevOps or SRE experience in distributed systems and 4+ years with a public cloud such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• 4+ years of Kubernetes experience and proficiency in Go, Python, or Ruby, preferably Go.
• Experience with Linux, networking, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, ArgoCD, testing, technical documentation, and runbooks.

Nice to have

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer certification.
• Associate Cloud Engineer certification.
• DoD 8570/8140 compliance with at least IAT Level II, a current Computing Environment credential, and an approved specialty certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work combines remote work with in-person office or customer time.
• Potential eligibility for a bonus plan, role-specific commission or bonus, and annual refresh stock grants.
• Work includes collaboration with global and remote teams in a fast-paced environment.
• hirify.global provides reasonable accommodations and maintains equal employment opportunity practices.