Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Fully remote; work from any location worldwide

Company

hirify.global builds Linux infrastructure and security products, including platform, automation, and management services.

What you will do

• Run the observability platform, onboard teams, and manage alerting, cost, and capacity.
• Operate GitLab and the CI runner fleet, including upgrades, access, backups, and restore drills.
• Keep production services reliable through monitoring, runbooks, repeatable recovery, and infrastructure as code.
• Research, design, and deploy new platform services with appropriate monitoring, backups, documentation, and automation.
• Respond to developer requests, convert recurring work into self-service, and lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems.
• Use AI engineering assistants for research, planning, and automation while reviewing and validating their output before production use.

Requirements

• Senior-level infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering experience with ownership of production services.
• Linux administration and debugging on bare metal and virtual machines, plus production Kubernetes delivered through GitOps.
• Experience with Kubernetes cluster upgrades, Ansible, Terraform or OpenTofu, and merge-request-based infrastructure delivery.
• Production GitLab administration and GitLab CI experience, plus working knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, alert rules, dashboards, and PromQL.
• Strong written communication and interpersonal skills for working with product and engineering teams.
• English at upper-intermediate level or higher, with advanced experience using AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex.

Nice to have

• SLOs, burn-rate alerts, and data-driven alerting design.
• Kata Containers, Firecracker, gVisor, or other microVM isolation technologies.
• Ceph RGW or similar S3-compatible object storage operations.
• AWS cost management, self-hosted Sentry, Kafka, ClickHouse, Redis, Python, or Go experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible working hours.
• Professional development opportunities and an education budget.
• 24 paid vacation days, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave.
• Private medical insurance compensation plus coworking and gym or sports reimbursement.
• Opportunity to receive a reward for an innovative idea that the company can patent.