Site Reliability Engineering Manager (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: United States; remote-first hybrid role with regular on-site work at customer locations in Arlington, VA or Colorado Springs, CO. Candidates outside commuting distance must be willing to relocate.

Salary: $205,000–$255,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop the SRE team across infrastructure, operations, and application reliability.
• Own capacity planning, prioritization, delivery commitments, and coordination across platform engineering, application engineering, security, and customer success.
• Set the reliability roadmap using customer needs, production data, incident patterns, and operational risks.
• Establish operational ownership, support responsibilities, escalation paths, and readiness criteria for deployments and releases.
• Support team-led incident response, sustainable on-call coverage, blameless postmortems, and follow-through on corrective actions.
• Guide infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and application reliability priorities across AWS, AWS GovCloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance required.
• At least 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related infrastructure and operations role.
• Direct engineering management experience, including coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring.
• Experience with capacity planning, competing priorities, cross-team coordination, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, scripting, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS or AWS GovCloud, on-premises infrastructure, observability, networking, security, and application reliability.
• Must be able to work regularly on-site at customer locations; relocation assistance is available for candidates outside commuting distance.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting mission-critical customer deployments or coordinating delivery across multiple customer environments.
• Experience in DoD, classified, or air-gapped environments; familiarity with RMF, STIGs, or ICD 503.
• Experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, GitOps, or on-premises virtualization platforms.
• Application development experience with TypeScript or Node.js.
• AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA, CKAD, Security+, or another DoD 8570.01-approved credential.

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 summit trips and a $1,000 annual home office budget.
• Equity participation.