Senior Cloud Infrastructure and Networking

Location: Remote, US

Base salary: $125,000–$135,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides standards-based satellite connectivity that connects smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites through a cloud-native commercial NTN vRAN platform.

What you will do

• Own 24x7 infrastructure health across GCP and on-premise private cloud environments, including GKE, bare-metal Kubernetes, storage, networking, and compute platforms.
• Operate the observability stack built with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki or ELK, and Pub/Sub-based alerting.
• Maintain PostgreSQL and Redis reliability, including replication, backup and restore, failover testing, performance monitoring, and persistence configuration.
• Serve as the L3 escalation authority for Cloud Infrastructure incidents and lead troubleshooting bridges through resolution or structured engineering handoff.
• Define SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, capacity plans, runbooks, SOPs, and root-cause analyses for infrastructure components.
• Partner with Network Implementation, Platform Engineering, security, Core NRE, and RAN NRE teams on GitOps changes, operational readiness, automation, and infrastructure hardening.

Requirements

• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering, SRE, or cloud operations experience in a production 24x7 environment with direct Kubernetes on-call ownership.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise covering multi-cluster operations, node pools, RBAC, network policies, PVCs, CSI drivers, operators, and production upgrades.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud and private cloud infrastructure, including GCP or AWS, bare-metal Kubernetes, KVM, or hyperconverged platforms.
• Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, alerting pipelines, PostgreSQL replication, Redis, ArgoCD or Flux, Helm, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Strong knowledge of SRE practices, Linux and container internals, networking, incident response, runbook authorship, RCA documentation, and operational communication.
• Must be based in the United States; the role is remote and participates in a global 24x7 on-call rotation.

Nice to have

• Experience with telecom, 5G Core, vRAN, NTN, or satellite ground-segment infrastructure.
• Production-scale Ceph or Rook, KubeVirt, Harvester, OpenStack, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, or software-defined networking experience.
• Strong Go or Python development experience for automation tooling, Kubernetes operators, or infrastructure integrations.
• FinOps experience or certifications such as CKA, CKS, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or Red Hat Certified Architect.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible remote work with employees across three continents.
• Medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, holidays, and stock option-based equity.
• Monthly wellness and education reimbursement allowances.
• Opportunity to work on a live direct-to-device satellite network and collaborate with specialists across software, hardware, telecom, satellite, and network virtualization.
• Inclusive culture with a focus on transparency and diversity.