Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: Toronto, Canada; hybrid work is available from the downtown Toronto office. Work from anywhere in the world is available for up to four weeks.

Salary: $130,000–$150,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global provides internal communications software for Outlook and Gmail, combining email design, employee engagement tools, and analytics.

What you will do

• Maintain AWS and Kubernetes environments and improve availability, performance, and resource usage.
• Build and maintain Terraform and Terragrunt infrastructure, review plans, manage remote state, and resolve infrastructure drift.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release checks, rollback procedures, and developer experience.
• Improve monitoring and alerting, participate in the shared on-call rotation, and contribute to incident reviews.
• Assess vulnerabilities, strengthen application, cloud, CI/CD, and Kubernetes security, and support SOC 2 and GDPR controls.
• Test backups and recovery procedures, maintain runbooks, document changes, and collaborate with application, AI, and data engineering teams.

Requirements

• Approximately 3–5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or a related engineering role.
• Hands-on experience supporting production workloads in AWS, plus experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Terragrunt.
• Solid knowledge of Linux, networking, DNS, HTTP, TLS, IAM, least privilege, secrets management, and encryption.
• Ability to write automation in Python, Bash, Ruby, JavaScript, or another suitable language.
• Experience with Git, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
• Practical application security experience and working knowledge of SOC 2 controls and GDPR principles relevant to engineering.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Ruby on Rails or Node.js applications.
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis or Valkey, Sidekiq, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Helm, Karpenter, or KEDA.
• Experience building monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, or CloudWatch and supporting services across multiple AWS regions.
• Experience with penetration-test remediation, SOC 2 audit evidence, backup restoration, or disaster recovery exercises.
• Familiarity with securing AI integrations, agent workloads, or MCP services.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with a downtown Toronto office and the option to work from anywhere in the world for up to four weeks.
• Employer-paid benefits and a Health Spending Account from the first day.
• Stock options, an RRSP Group Savings Plan, vacation, a personal development budget, and paid personal and volunteering days.
• Five health days per year and a day off for your birthday.
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on clear reasoning, knowledge sharing, sustainable operations, and reducing manual work.

Hiring process

• The hiring process includes interviews with discussion of the on-call schedule, escalation support, and expectations.
• AI is used to take interview notes and support applicant-tracking workflows; applications and interviews are reviewed by the Talent Acquisition team.