Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

Location: Remote for candidates residing in Alabama, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia; occasional travel to client sites or company meetings may be required.

Salary: $120,588–$170,000 hiring range; overall position range $120,588–$195,955, plus discretionary performance-based bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a digital integration consultancy that combines technology, people, and organizational development to build user-focused solutions for public-sector and other meaningful customer problems.

What you will do

• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets aligned with mission and business priorities.
• Design and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, release automation, deployment strategies, and containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement observability across metrics, logs, and traces; lead incident response, on-call practices, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.
• Automate operational work with Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages; perform capacity planning, performance tuning, load testing, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Partner with security, development, product, and government stakeholders; document reliability standards, mentor engineers, review changes, and advise customers.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating production systems on at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation, and with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for distributed systems, plus leading incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Strong understanding of networking, Linux systems administration, load balancing, DNS, and cloud security fundamentals.
• Agile cross-functional delivery experience and strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting federal, state, or local government technology programs and regulated environments such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, FISMA, or HIPAA, including ATO processes.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, cloud.gov, service mesh, GitOps, policy-as-code, chaos engineering, resilience testing, or performance testing.
• Experience applying AI-enabled tooling or AIOps, leading cloud or legacy modernization, and holding relevant cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, or security certifications.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, family-friendly schedules with a culture emphasizing autonomy, coaching, equity, curiosity, innovation, and work-life balance.
• Medical HSA plan fully covered with HSA contributions; dental and vision fully covered for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) with 4% match and immediate vesting, paid parental leave, 12 weeks paid FMLA, PTO, federal holidays, birthday holiday, sick leave, jury duty, and bereavement leave.
• Education, wellness, and technology allowances; pet insurance, employee assistance, legal support, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Occasional travel to client sites or company meetings is required; extended computer work and occasional light lifting may be part of the role.

Hiring process

• Introductory recruiter interview covering experience, skills, salary expectations, role details, and next steps.
• Role-specific technical assessment followed by a skills and business fit interview with situational and values-based questions.
• Some projects may also include customer interviews, background checks, and security clearance requirements.