Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer (AI)

Location: Fully remote long-term collaboration; no specific candidate location is stated.

Estimated annual earnings: $100,100. This is an estimate and is not a guaranteed minimum.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered mental healthcare platform combining 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, defining 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, together with GitLab CI/CD templates, OIDC, and self-managed GitLab.
• Build practical observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, log pipelines, and APM.
• Implement blue-green deployments, health-gated automated rollback, zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations, and CI migration gating.
• Improve security and developer experience in a HIPAA environment while integrating 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 AWS and production Kubernetes/EKS experience, including cluster management, node scaling, policy enforcement, Karpenter, or Kyverno.
• Strong experience with Terraform, AWS CDK in TypeScript, GitLab CI/CD, reusable templates, OIDC, and self-managed GitLab.
• Practical experience with observability, security engineering, secrets rotation, short-lived credentials, PHI-aware logging, and HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience with blue-green deployments, automated rollback, PostgreSQL zero-downtime migrations, Docker, ECR, load balancing, TLS, and DNS.
• Fluent Russian and English at B1 level required. Experience working effectively in remote, distributed teams and using agentic AI workflows is required.

Nice to have

• Experience in HIPAA, SOC 2, or another regulated environment.
• Ansible, Node.js operations, GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux, deeper PostgreSQL administration, or AWS certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first collaboration under a B2B model with flexible long-term work arrangements.
• Health insurance after the probation period, plus sports and wellness compensation.
• 19 paid vacation days, 4 additional wellness days annually, and paid sick leave for the first 5 working days.
• Personalized English lessons via Preply and opportunities for career growth.
• Supportive distributed culture with gifts for key life events and offline corporate events.