Senior Reliability Site Engineer (Operations) (Java)

Location: Hybrid, with work from home or the office based on business and client needs; primary location North York, Ontario, with other locations in Toronto and Waterloo, Ontario. On-call and after-hours support is required on a team rotation basis. Canadian Enhanced Reliability Security clearance requires a minimum of 5 consecutive years of residency in Canada.

Base pay: CAD 100,000–143,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global provides financial security and health-related services to clients in Canada and around the world.

What you will do

• Support highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, secure, and resilient applications and infrastructure.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets while monitoring performance, capacity, and reliability risks.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring, logging, alerting, telemetry, and self-healing capabilities.
• Lead high-impact production incident response, participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Automate scaling, incident recovery, routine operations, and internal tooling to reduce operational work and MTTR.
• Partner with development, product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and IT operations teams on releases, rollbacks, change validation, capacity planning, documentation, and performance tuning.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
• 3+ years of experience with incident management processes in IT operations.
• 7+ years of experience with Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, J2EE technologies including Servlet, JDBC, and JSP, and the Spring framework.
• 1+ years of experience with ReactJS or React.js, or Angular.
• 1+ years of experience with container technologies including Kubernetes and Docker.
• 1+ years of experience with web security and the OWASP Top 10.
• Ability to lead or drive investigations involving cross-functional teams, analyze and debug complex issues, solve problems, and produce concise incident impact, root-cause, and follow-up reports.
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, teamwork, and ability to work in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks, including a law enforcement inquiry and credit check, before starting and during employment.

Nice to have

• Web services and frameworks including SOAP, REST API, Java APIs, JSON, and Spring Boot.
• SQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL database experience.
• DevOps tools including Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket/Git, Gradle, Maven, CDD, and Ansible.
• Experience with multi-factor authentication, Agile frameworks such as Kanban and Scrum, AWS-hosted applications or servers, and collaboration tools including Confluence, JIRA, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Teams.
• Experience with Kafka, light car proxy, middleware technologies such as WebSphere or WebLogic, and AI-based tools.
• Familiarity with AIOps capabilities or experience developing and implementing AI-based tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with flexibility to work from home or the office according to business and client needs.
• Wellness programs supporting mental, physical, and financial health.
• Career paths and networking opportunities across the organization.
• Values-driven environment focused on caring, authenticity, boldness, inspiration, impact, inclusion, and employee well-being.

Hiring process

• Application includes applicable background checks and Canadian Reliability Security Clearance requirements.
• The Government of Canada may request information about living or travelling outside Canada for six consecutive months during the previous five years.