Staff DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Location: Remote — United States or Canada

Salary: $180,000–$200,000 base annually, plus bonus

Company

hirify.global is a specialist search firm focused on AI, software engineering, infrastructure, and data, partnering with technology companies across the US and Canada.

What you will do

• Architect and build scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Design platform capabilities for services running on EKS and develop cloud-native infrastructure.
• Modernize EC2/Linux infrastructure and containerize legacy workloads.
• Build Terraform and Terragrunt modules, automation, and internal infrastructure tooling.
• Improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows across Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, contribute to root-cause analysis, and implement preventative fixes with software and infrastructure engineers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience across DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Deep, recent production experience with AWS and Terraform.
• Strong Linux, EC2, networking, security, and troubleshooting fundamentals.
• Evidence of personally designing and building infrastructure or platforms from scratch.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, and failures in detail.
• Comfort working with both modern cloud-native infrastructure and older production systems.
• Ability to create patterns and solutions, take technical ownership, work without a predefined playbook, and participate in on-call rotations and complex production incidents.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time remote role for candidates in the United States or Canada.
• Staff-level individual-contributor ownership with deeply hands-on work.
• Opportunity to work on genuine infrastructure modernization, combining greenfield platform engineering with challenging production systems.
• Opportunity to influence architecture and tooling across the broader engineering organization.