Senior Service Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Chicago or Austin, United States

Annual base salary: $220,000–$280,000, depending on experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. Eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a diversified trading firm using proprietary capital and technology to operate across global financial markets and expand into areas including real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.

What you will do

• Support and improve hirify.global’s large on-premises and cloud-based Kubernetes platform serving trading desks, data scientists, and enterprise application teams.
• Work with business units to onboard and deploy applications successfully into the Kubernetes platform.
• Administer the platform and ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and cost-effective compute consumption.
• Automate repetitive manual tasks and develop new platform features and components.
• Provide customer service to platform users and collaborate with infrastructure stakeholders and other teams.
• Solve complex technical and operational problems under interesting constraints.

Requirements

• Experience working with or administering Kubernetes clusters.
• Knowledge of networking, storage, and containerization fundamentals.
• Familiarity with AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• A service-focused attitude, including finding the right resources and solutions for users rather than following rigid boundaries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and hold evidence-based discussions on technical and operational topics.
• Eagerness to learn, collaborate, and find solutions under interesting constraints.

Nice to have

• Experience with common Kubernetes operators and tools such as Flux, Fluentbit, Fluentd, and Prometheus.
• Experience administering on-premise infrastructure.
• Experience developing, deploying, and supporting full-stack web applications.
• Experience with multiple programming languages across greenfield development and legacy maintenance.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomy, curiosity, integrity, innovation, and willingness to challenge consensus are valued.
• Emphasis on relentless automation, creative problem-solving, and finding the right solution.
• Collaborative environment with internal teams and trading desks.
• Employee benefits include medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance; 401k with discretionary employer match; short- and long-term disability; life and AD&D insurance; health savings accounts; and flexible spending accounts.