Sr. Specialist, IT (Cloud/DevOps)

Location: Based in Fremont, California, or Charlotte, North Carolina, United States; requires 4–5 days per week in the office and occasional travel for company events.

Base salary: $140,000–$170,000 annually; California base salary range: $154,000–$187,000 annually. The position is eligible for an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is developing electric pickup trucks and rugged SUVs by electrifying and digitizing an iconic American automotive brand.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code practices.
• Build containerized infrastructure with Kubernetes and EKS and collaborate with software development and systems integration teams.
• Select managed cloud services and develop CI/CD tools, automation, and secure deployment practices.
• Implement highly available, reliable, scalable, and performant infrastructure components.
• Build monitoring and logging solutions for proactive issue detection, troubleshooting, and analysis.
• Partner with security, product, development, and QA teams to maintain reliable systems and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps, Cloud, or Site Reliability Engineer.
• Expertise with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, and configuration management tools including Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Experience with CI/CD tools including GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Kargo, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or CDK.
• Experience with on-premise environments using Nutanix or VMware, plus automation using Python, Shell, Golang, or similar languages.
• On-shift on-call participation, strong troubleshooting and collaboration skills, and the ability to teach and coach engineers and teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or Azure Foundry.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and inclusive environment focused on building a company and products from the ground up.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans.
• 401(k) program with employer matching and immediate vesting.
• 20 days of planned paid time off, 40 hours of unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, plus paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting, and military service.