Site Reliability Engineer 1 (2nd Shift)

Location: Beth Page, New York, US. 2nd shift; 1-year contract.

Company

hirify.global is recruiting for a multinational telecommunications technology company supporting a video platform engineering team.

What you will do

• Monitor the health and performance of live, linear, and on-demand video services using observability tools.
• Support video platform operations across encoding, transcoding, packaging, origin servers, DRM, and CDN delivery.
• Troubleshoot service-impacting issues, escalate to senior engineers, and participate in supervised on-call rotations.
• Execute runbooks for operational tasks, deployments, and platform maintenance.
• Write and maintain basic Python, Bash, and PowerShell automation scripts.
• Document incident response procedures and collaborate with network, storage, CDN, and application teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Media Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1–2 years of experience in systems administration, IT operations, video engineering, or SRE-related work.
• Basic Linux administration and troubleshooting knowledge.
• Familiarity with Python, Bash, or PowerShell scripting.
• Exposure to monitoring or observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk, DataDog, or similar.
• General knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and HTTP.

Nice to have

• Awareness of streaming protocols such as HLS, MPEG-DASH, and RTMP.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Exposure to video delivery workflows including streaming, VOD, and ABR packaging.

Culture & Benefits

• 1-year contract engagement.
• Second-shift schedule with supervised on-call participation.
• Collaboration with senior engineers and cross-functional infrastructure teams.