Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Madrid, Spain; hybrid work model with office and remote work.

Salary: €60,000–€85,500 gross per year; total on-target earnings of €66,000–€93,000 including an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides digital employee experience management software that helps IT teams monitor, diagnose, and resolve workplace technology issues at scale.

What you will do

• Implement and manage AWS cloud-native systems, Kubernetes clusters, service meshes, and deployment pipelines.
• Design and maintain reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Define SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets while monitoring availability, performance, and user experience.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code, internal platform tools, automation, runbooks, health checks, and alerting.
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response as Incident Commander, and reduce MTTD and MTTR.
• Enable observability, fault tolerance, zero-downtime releases, compliance automation, and cost optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or Platform Engineer.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, especially AWS, and SaaS products.
• Strong programming or scripting skills with Python, Go, or Bash, plus infrastructure-as-code experience such as Terraform.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, Linux, networking, and cloud architectures.
• Excellent written and verbal English, with strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and incident-management skills.

Nice to have

• Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or FedRAMP compliance.
• Experience with chaos engineering or resilience testing.
• Experience with blue/green and canary releases, service meshes, and tools such as Datadog, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, FluxCD, or Crossplane.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment contract and competitive compensation package.
• Hybrid work model with flexible hours, unlimited paid time off, 25 vacation days, and three company-paid volunteer days.
• Fitness centre access, public transport reimbursement, and partial reimbursement for French classes.
• Company and team events, including volunteer days, talks, team-building activities, and meetups.
• Relocation package for employees coming from another country.