Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/Terraform)

Location: Remote in Australia

Company

hirify.global develops data quality, data enrichment, and location intelligence software with an AI-first approach.

What you will do

• Define and maintain reliability standards across on-premises private cloud and AWS environments, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alerting, logging, tracing, and MTTR improvements.
• Build infrastructure as code, deployment automation, monitoring, and observability tooling with Terraform, Ansible, Datadog, Python, and Bash.
• Guide CI/CD and deployment practices while embedding scalability, backup, recovery, and failure-mode planning into service design.
• Lead Operational Readiness Reviews, validate production and disaster recovery readiness, and maintain runbooks and reliability backlogs.
• Lead major incident response, perform root cause analyses, and implement preventive automation.
• Support security, compliance, vulnerability remediation, data protection, cross-team reliability reviews, and rotating on-call coverage.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of systems or infrastructure engineering experience in an enterprise production environment.
• Strong Linux experience, infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and/or Ansible, and AWS experience with EC2, ECS, S3, VPC, and IAM.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash, plus experience building monitoring and alerting systems; Datadog is preferred.
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS, load balancing, distributed systems, CI/CD, structured root cause analysis, SLOs, and operational readiness reviews.
• Active daily use of company-provided AI tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude for infrastructure code, troubleshooting, testing, incident analysis, and documentation is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, GitOps, Git, or GitLab.
• Knowledge of enterprise virtualization, hybrid cloud environments, ITIL, change management, or enterprise security tools.
• AWS Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement in Australia.
• Participation in a rotating on-call schedule for critical escalations and changes.
• Collaboration with engineering teams across multiple infrastructure environments.
• Approximately 0% travel required.