Senior DevOps Engineer (Terraform/Kubernetes)

Location: Remote from home in the USA for residents of CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OH, OR, TN, TX, VA, or WA. Hybrid work is available from offices in Austin, TX or Tampa, FL. Onsite interviews may be required. The role is not available within Chicago city limits unless the candidate resides outside the city proper or is willing to self-relocate.

Base salary: $150,000–$200,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global provides a unified IT operations platform for endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access, serving nearly 40,000 customers in more than 140 countries.

What you will do

• Build and maintain CI/CD and continuous delivery frameworks covering artifact and environment promotion, deployment gates, Terraform checks, and automated rollback.
• Implement blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies with automated health checks and progressive delivery controls.
• Develop release orchestration tooling for services and regions, including scheduling, change tracking, and feature-flag-driven rollouts.
• Design reusable Terraform modules, remote-state strategies, workspaces, provider standards, and a cloud-agnostic IaC foundation across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Integrate policy-as-code, security and compliance scanning, cost checks, monitoring, and drift detection into infrastructure and deployment workflows.
• Help engineering teams adopt IaC through migrations, documentation, golden-path templates, incident response, rollback, and production remediation.

Requirements

• 7+ years in cloud-based DevOps, with deep current AWS expertise focused on release engineering, deployment automation, and IaC.
• Hands-on production experience with Azure and/or GCP in addition to AWS, including infrastructure deployed and operated on more than one cloud.
• 4+ years of production Terraform experience covering module authoring, remote state, workspaces, provider versions, and safe CI/CD-integrated plan/apply workflows.
• Experience with Kubernetes or ECS, Helm or Kustomize, and provisioning clusters and node groups through Terraform.
• Experience designing and operating continuous delivery pipelines, progressive rollouts, automated rollback, infrastructure provisioning, and release engineering.
• Experience with Terraform in multi-team environments, including state design, module registries, versioning policies, and access control.
• Proven results reducing deployment lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time through automation and codified infrastructure.
• 5+ years with *nix operating systems and 4+ years scripting with Shell, Go, Python, Perl, or Tcl/Tk for deployment tooling and automation.
• 4+ years of production monitoring, alerting, deployment observability, configuration management, and Terraform-state drift detection; familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Git, and Bitbucket.

Nice to have

• Experience operating infrastructure across two or more clouds and using provider-agnostic Terraform module patterns.
• CircleCI experience.
• Familiarity with Terragrunt, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, Atlantis, Sentinel, OPA, or Checkov.
• Experience with hirify.global’s technology stack, including Java, Kotlin, C++, Golang, and Postgres, plus large-scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design, or client-server architecture.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid-remote work with flexibility based on location and office preference.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan.
• Unlimited PTO and support for work-life balance.
• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
• Technical escalation and production-support responsibilities may include incident response during and after business hours.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.