Systems Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Define and use SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to guide reliability priorities for critical services.
• Lead production incident response, incident command, post-incident reviews, and continuous operational improvements.
• Design monitoring, logging, and tracing strategies using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, Datadog, or similar tools.
• Operate large-scale Kubernetes and container platforms, including autoscaling, capacity planning, network policies, and service mesh integrations.
• Automate operational work with production-grade Python, Go, Bash, or similar tooling and build reliable CI/CD pipelines with testing, canary releases, feature flags, and progressive rollouts.
• Improve resilience, security, and developer experience through chaos engineering, failure analysis, dependency hardening, patch management, and mentoring.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen, Green Card holder, EAD holder, or H-1B transfer candidate.
• New H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of SRE, DevOps, or production engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java, plus hands-on Linux, Kubernetes, containers, observability, and CI/CD experience.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, incident response, post-incident reviews, communication, and technical documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience with production SLOs and error budgets, chaos engineering, capacity planning, performance engineering, or large-scale load testing.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with Istio, Linkerd, or Consul.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Opportunity for career growth within an established technology organization.
• Blameless culture focused on operational excellence and engineer well-being during on-call rotations.