Middle SRE / DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote (Global), with availability during UK working hours

Company

hirify.global is a London-based fintech making ETF investing simple and accessible, serving more than 150,000 clients with over £3.5 billion in assets.

What you will do

• Run and maintain cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS, with some GCP.
• Perform OS patching, upgrades, backup checks, audit checks, and other planned maintenance.
• Verify MySQL backup restoration, replication, and failover without risking production.
• Maintain Grafana and ELK monitoring and logging, tuning alerts and reducing noise.
• Handle infrastructure, access, and permissions requests from developers, Operations, and the managed service partner.
• Automate operational work with Python and Bash, manage configuration with Ansible and Terraform, and participate in incident response and follow-ups.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud and Linux infrastructure in production, including web products or similar.
• Practical AWS experience operating and troubleshooting core services, networking, and permissions.
• Confident Docker usage, including runtime, resources, logs, and health checks.
• Experience with Ansible for repeatable, idempotent configuration.
• Experience with Grafana and ELK monitoring and logging.
• Scripting experience in Python and/or Bash for safe operational automation.
• MySQL experience in high-availability setups, including backups, restores, replication, and failover.
• Safety-first production change practices: plan, validate, roll back, and escalate when needed; ownership after deployment and clear written and spoken communication.
• English at B2 level or higher, fluent Russian, availability during UK working hours, and readiness to support rare out-of-hours incidents.

Nice to have

• Terraform experience, including working with existing modules.
• Kubernetes, GCP or other cloud providers, and CI/CD pipeline knowledge.
• Cloud security best practices and Zabbix.
• Fintech or other regulated-industry experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with UK-hours overlap.
• Approximately 60% of time is dedicated to planned maintenance and improvements, with up to 40% for incoming requests.
• Hands-on onboarding, security training, runbook review, and support from experienced DevOps engineers.
• Opportunity to own a defined infrastructure area and grow toward Senior SRE.
• Unlimited vacation and a supportive engineering team.

Hiring process

• HR interview with the Talent team.
• Gamified cognitive assessment and technical interview with the DevOps team.
• Final conversation with the CTO.