Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States; hybrid. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.

Company

hirify.global develops and publishes video games and operates a portfolio of game studios and live-service platforms.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate scalable hybrid infrastructure across AWS and VMware vSphere using Terraform, Puppet, and related automation.
• Own EC2 fleets, VMware clusters, capacity planning, patching, image pipelines, autoscaling, and secure AWS networking.
• Operate F5 BIG-IP load balancers and firewalls, including traffic management, high availability, SSL offload, and automation.
• Run MySQL and PostgreSQL production environments, including replication, failover, backups, recovery, upgrades, migrations, and performance tuning.
• Build observability, SLI/SLO, error-budget, alerting, chaos-engineering, incident-response, and post-mortem practices.
• Improve developer experience and platform security through self-service provisioning, CI/CD hardening, secrets management, least-privilege IAM, and policy-as-code.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or equivalent production-scale infrastructure work.
• Deep AWS experience with EC2, VPC networking, IAM, RDS/Aurora, S3, Route 53, ELB, and CloudWatch.
• Strong VMware vSphere experience across ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and/or NSX, plus bare-metal operations.
• Hands-on F5 BIG-IP experience with LTM, AFM, DNS/GTM, iRules, SSL/TLS offload, and HA pairs.
• Production experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL, Terraform, Packer, Puppet, Ansible, AWS Systems Manager, and observability tools including Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship is required.

Nice to have

• Live-service game or large-scale consumer internet experience with millions of concurrent users.
• Database reliability engineering, cross-region replication, sharding, or Aurora Global Database experience.
• F5 automation, VMware-to-AWS migrations, FinOps, or cloud-scale resource management experience.
• Experience with AI and agentic development, relevant certifications, or mentoring SREs.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment supporting collaboration across game studios and infrastructure teams.
• Reliability practices emphasize systemic fixes, automation, blameless post-mortems, and follow-through.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations available for qualified individuals with disabilities.