Head of Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Fully remote within the United States; US working hours with sufficient overlap required. The role does not require travel.

Annual base salary: $200,000–$250,000, plus bonus and equity.

Company

hirify.global is a market research and analytics firm that uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean, and analyze billions of alternative data points for investment funds and corporations.

What you will do

• Set and execute the cloud infrastructure modernization roadmap across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and the broader platform ecosystem.
• Lead a small, high-leverage global team spanning cloud platform, SRE, and DevOps while remaining technically hands-on.
• Improve developer velocity through reliable paved roads, reusable infrastructure capabilities, self-service workflows, and faster feedback loops.
• Establish reliability practices covering service ownership, SLIs, SLOs, incident management, error budgets, observability, and post-incident follow-through.
• Own disaster recovery, resilience testing, recovery objectives, and a sustainable 24/7 operational model.
• Improve cloud efficiency through cost attribution, capacity planning, Kubernetes resource utilization, automation, and measurable savings.

Requirements

• Must be located in the United States and available during US working hours with sufficient overlap for global collaboration.
• 6+ years of relevant infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, or developer productivity experience.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Experience leading approximately 3–10 infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineers in a player-coach capacity.
• Experience building or transforming platform functions and operating mature, business-critical production infrastructure.
• Experience with SLOs, incident management, production operations, disaster recovery, developer enablement, and cloud-cost optimization.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling a data-intensive SaaS, analytics, or similarly complex technology organization.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work hours and flexible vacation.
• Generous 401(k) match and parental leave.
• Team events, wellness budget, and learning reimbursement.
• Benefits package includes bonus and equity.
• Environment focused on ownership, respect, trust, learning, and measurable impact rather than tenure or office politics.