Lead Cloud Resiliency Engineer (AWS)

Location: Hybrid work from assigned hirify.global facilities in Bloomington, Illinois; Dunwoody, Georgia; Richardson, Texas; or Tempe, Arizona, with approximately 40% in-office time each month beginning in late 2027. Applicants must be eligible to lawfully work in the United States immediately; U.S. work authorization sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $97,000–$130,000 per year, with potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global provides insurance and financial services and is developing technology that strengthens customer connections and improves the customer experience.

What you will do

• Plan, facilitate, and evaluate cloud recovery exercises with application and platform teams.
• Review cloud architectures, application workflows, and infrastructure dependencies to identify recovery challenges and improvement opportunities.
• Investigate and troubleshoot recovery issues with engineering teams and help implement practical solutions.
• Expand recovery validation to data resiliency, backup and restoration, and critical service dependencies.
• Use observability tools and operational metrics to evaluate recovery outcomes, identify gaps, and improve recovery readiness.
• Improve recovery through automation, standardization, resiliency tooling, dashboards, automated validation, and self-service capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure, architecture, and operational practices.
• Experience supporting, troubleshooting, or improving complex cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
• Ability to understand technical architecture diagrams, application workflows, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, or Infrastructure as Code, including reviewing and troubleshooting existing automation.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring practices for understanding application health and operational performance.
• Experience collaborating across engineering teams to investigate technical challenges and drive improvements.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence outcomes through collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, resiliency engineering, or disaster recovery.
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or multi-cloud environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift, including managed cloud offerings such as ROSA.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, cross-region architectures, and application recovery patterns.
• Experience with data resiliency, backup and restoration, or recovery testing.
• Experience with Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk.
• Experience with Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure automation technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, operational tooling, or self-service engineering platforms.
• Experience with AI-assisted operations, intelligent monitoring, or automated operational insights.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on diverse perspectives, technical curiosity, continuous learning, and innovation.
• Standard 38:45-hour work week with hybrid flexibility.
• Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, and wellbeing programs, with hirify.global paying most of the healthcare premium.
• Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Paid time off, parental leave, paid holidays, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
• Annual raise and bonus eligibility, retirement benefits with a 401(k) contribution of up to 7%, and financial coaching.