Senior Staff DevOps Engineer with Clearance (AWS)

Location: Hybrid, with three days per week on-site in Westminster, Colorado; U.S. Person status required.

Salary: $128,000–$170,000–$187,000 annually in Colorado.

Company

hirify.global develops spatial intelligence solutions and a unified platform supporting commercial and government customers.

What you will do

• Lead reliability engineering for the hirify.global Hub platform and related infrastructure services.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for software and infrastructure delivery.
• Build and operate AWS infrastructure automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native services.
• Improve availability, scalability, observability, security, maintainability, and operational readiness across commercial and government AWS environments.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, deployment, performance, reliability, and production issues while improving rollback and incident-response practices.
• Participate in an on-call rotation of approximately one week every twelve weeks and contribute to responsible AI-assisted engineering standards and workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud operations, including ownership of production systems.
• Experience operating and improving production systems in cloud-based environments.
• Strong Site Reliability Engineering experience with service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability metrics, and reliability-focused automation.
• Strong proficiency with AWS and production workloads in multi-account environments.
• Strong proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell and a solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with engineering colleagues.
• Active U.S. Government security clearance and U.S. Person status are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-availability systems, database replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Experience with zero- or low-downtime deployment strategies, including blue/green, canary, rolling deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, PagerDuty, or similar observability and incident-management platforms.
• Experience with secure cloud operations, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and audit-ready infrastructure.
• Experience supporting government, regulated, or compliance-driven environments.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development or automation tools and validation, review, privacy, and security practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with regular on-site collaboration in Westminster, Colorado.
• Benefits include a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
• Work supports commercial and government environments with an emphasis on security, reliability, and engineering quality.

Hiring process

• Submit an application through hirify.global’s Career page.
• The application window is three days from the posting date and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified; reposted roles remain open for three days after reposting.