Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS/Azure)

Location: Remote within approved U.S. states and localities where hirify.global is set up for business. Applicants must be located in AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, IL excluding Chicago, IN, KS, MD, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, OH, OK, OR, PA, SD, TX, VA, or VT. The position is contingent on contract award and successful acquisition of an active NOAA badge.

Salary: $145,000–$180,000 per year, with potential performance- and company profit-based bonuses.

Company

hirify.global is a woman-owned small business developing geospatial data processing pipelines and software for public, private, and nonprofit clients, with expertise in cloud-based geospatial processing, remote sensing, and Earth science systems.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of secure, scalable AWS cloud-native solutions.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code across numerous AWS and Azure accounts.
• Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Create Python, Bash, JavaScript, and other automation scripts for operational workflows.
• Support infrastructure for front-end and back-end applications, data pipelines, security tooling, and Generative AI applications.
• Define and promote DevOps standards while collaborating with technical teams, security specialists, customers, and multiple project stakeholders.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years focused on cloud technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience writing, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex infrastructure-as-code configurations.
• Experience designing, deploying, and managing services on a major cloud platform, with strong knowledge of cloud architecture patterns and tradeoffs.
• Experience with programming, build and deployment automation, Linux, infrastructure monitoring, data storage, data engineering, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Experience working in Agile software teams and communicating complex architectures through documentation, presentations, diagrams, and white papers.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, and hold an active NOAA CAC badge.

Nice to have

• Relevant AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes certifications, or willingness to obtain a technical cloud certification.
• Experience with Generative AI, regulated environments, authentication and authorization technologies, containerized workloads, data warehouses or lakehouses, and geospatial data processing.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may substitute.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible remote work schedule and support for a distributed workforce.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, accident, critical illness, and hospital insurance.
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with a fixed 3% employer contribution, plus HSA and FSA options.
• Parental leave, paid sick leave, four weeks plus one day of vacation, and six floating holidays.
• Flexible work environment focused on curiosity, respect, collaboration, professional growth, and meaningful work.
• Cell phone stipend and paid employee assistance program.