Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: United States; remote work with regular on-site work at customer locations in Arlington, VA. Candidates outside commuting distance must be willing to relocate to the United States.

Salary: $180K–$220K per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops collaboration and AI-powered workflow software for military planning and operational coordination.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, scalability, and security of production applications and platforms across on-premise DoD environments and AWS cloud.
• Design and manage monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana.
• Define and maintain service level indicators and objectives, including actionable alerting and error budgets.
• Lead incident response, critical incident coordination, root-cause analysis, and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Build secure Kubernetes clusters and resilient cloud and on-premise environments with Terraform, Ansible, and embedded compliance controls.
• Automate operational work, reduce toil, and improve deployment and production readiness for air-gapped environments.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret clearance required; SCI eligibility is a plus.
• Regular on-site work at customer locations in Arlington, VA is required; relocation assistance is available for candidates who are not within commuting distance.
• 5+ years of experience in Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering with an infrastructure and operations focus.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency with at least one of Python, Go, or Bash, plus familiarity with AWS or AWS GovCloud and secure networking fundamentals.
• Experience with incident response, root-cause analysis, and collaboration across platform, DevOps, and application teams.

Nice to have

• DoD environments and compliance frameworks such as RMF, STIGs, or ICD 503.
• GitOps, security-minded design, and meaningful SLIs/SLOs for distributed systems.
• On-premise virtualization with VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, or Hyper-V.
• Service mesh experience with Istio or Linkerd and relevant AWS, Kubernetes, or DoD security certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first organization with flexible work hours and unlimited PTO, while some customer-facing roles require on-site work.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match and eight weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Annual company retreats and a $1,000 yearly home office budget.
• Equity participation and a culture of blameless postmortems, mentoring, and continuous reliability improvement.