Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/Terraform)

Location: Paris or Bordeaux, with a few days working from home

Salary: €56,000–€66,000 per year

Company

hirify.global builds financial services supported by reliable, scalable, secure, and highly observable platform infrastructure.

What you will do

• Respond to well-understood production incidents, participate in on-call rotations, assess impact, and provide clear stakeholder updates.
• Investigate operational issues using logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and distributed tracing; contribute to postmortems and runbooks.
• Design and implement reliability improvements, including health checks, retries, circuit breakers, monitoring, and service-level indicators.
• Manage cloud resources and Infrastructure as Code, contribute to CI/CD, and automate maintenance using Bash, Python, or Go.
• Support security and compliance activities related to PCI DSS, ISO 27001, encryption, data classification, and least privilege.
• Monitor capacity and resource usage, optimize cloud costs, and collaborate with development, product, and security teams.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience supporting production services, participating in on-call rotations, handling incidents, and improving runbooks.
• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with dashboards, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, distributed systems, high availability, fault tolerance, and failure recovery.
• Ability to write automation scripts in Bash, Python, or Go and contribute to CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures, message queues, security and compliance requirements, capacity planning, and cloud cost optimization.

Nice to have

• AWS certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, Grafana, Datadog, or similar observability platforms.
• Experience operating services that process financial transactions or other sensitive data.
• Experience improving service-level objectives, performance, or capacity for production systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment contract with hybrid work in Paris or Bordeaux.
• Collaborative environment focused on ownership, pragmatism, knowledge sharing, and open communication.
• Reliability is treated as a shared responsibility across platform, development, product, and security teams.
• Approved AI tools may be used for code generation, documentation, and log analysis with appropriate validation and protection of sensitive information.

Hiring process

• 30-minute call with a Talent Acquisition Manager.
• Interview with the Platform Director, followed by a technical test and peer interview.
• Final interview with the CTO.