Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Compute Platforms (Kubernetes)

Location: San Ramon, California; hybrid, with three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday) required in the San Ramon office.

Base salary: $90,700–$252,200 USD annually. Total compensation may also include an annual performance bonus, stock, and other applicable incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global provides cloud contact center software and private-cloud infrastructure supporting customer experience applications worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead architecture and design of enterprise compute and hypervisor platforms across hardware, operating systems, virtualization, cloud orchestration, and container orchestration layers.
• Define standards and automation frameworks for bare-metal provisioning, lifecycle management, BMaaS, server imaging, firmware management, patching, and hardware validation.
• Design Kubernetes platforms on bare metal with QoS and affinity, including ArgoCD-based operations.
• Architect automated Ubuntu and Harvester deployments and PXE-based provisioning using Redfish APIs.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and automation with Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Git, Python, and Bash, including CI/CD pipelines for updates, upgrades, testing, and rollback.
• Produce technical designs and operational documentation, troubleshoot storage, Kubernetes, hypervisor, networking, and Linux issues, and collaborate with operations, network, storage, platform, and SRE teams on production readiness and on-call escalation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps focused on compute system design.
• Experience designing and automating bare-metal compute environments at scale, including PXE boot, network-based operating-system provisioning, automated server imaging, and BMaaS platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Redfish APIs for hardware provisioning, power management, and remote lifecycle operations.
• Deep enterprise experience with Ubuntu Linux and KVM hypervisors, including SUSE Harvester and OpenStack.
• Experience designing and deploying production-grade Kubernetes clusters on bare metal.
• Experience with Cisco UCS, Dell PowerEdge, Supermicro, and HPE enterprise compute hardware platforms.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation, and scripting with Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Ability to produce clear, structured technical design documentation; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• Ability to translate complex cross-domain requirements into scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure and automation solutions, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Nice to have

• OpenStack and Ubuntu KVM administration experience.
• BareMetal as a Service experience with PXE and Redfish, and Kubernetes on bare metal.
• CIS/NIST security and infrastructure lifecycle management experience.
• ITIL Foundation or advanced certification.
• Background in telecommunications, edge cloud, or large enterprise environments.
• Ubuntu certifications, CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
• Master’s degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience and relevant industry certifications are also considered.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative team focused on infrastructure excellence, continuous learning, innovation, and technical quality.
• Opportunity to work on complex technical challenges and a next-generation private-cloud platform.
• Access to current tools, frameworks, and upstream project developments.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage from the first day, with hirify.global covering the employee portion; disability, life insurance, and a 401(k) with employer matching are also provided.
• Mental-health support, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, company holidays, paid volunteer hours, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.