Systems Analyst 1671 (Site Reliability Engineering)

Location: Austin, TX; local candidates only. Hybrid schedule with 3 remote days and 2 onsite days required on Mondays and Thursdays.

Company

hirify.global, Inc. is recruiting for a Systems Analyst position supporting the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

What you will do

• Ensure the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of production systems.
• Apply software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations.
• Partner with development teams to build resilient, observable, and automated platforms meeting defined SLOs.
• Analyze business objectives, user requirements, operational procedures, system capabilities, and potential solutions.
• Design and operate highly available distributed systems and improve existing computer systems.
• Document user needs, program functions, system changes, runbooks, dashboards, and operational standards.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering roles.
• At least 8 years of experience with Linux/Unix systems and system internals.
• At least 8 years of experience using one or more programming or scripting languages: Python, Go, Java, or Bash.
• At least 8 years of experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems.
• At least 8 years of experience with AWS or GCP and cloud-native services.
• At least 8 years of experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• At least 8 years of experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• At least 8 years of experience with incident management, root cause analysis, postmortems, and integrating security and compliance into operational workflows.

Nice to have

• Four or more years of experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Application Insights, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Four or more years of experience operating 24x7 production environments with on-call rotations.
• Four or more years of experience with chaos engineering, resiliency testing, feature flags, canary deployments, and progressive delivery.
• Four or more years of experience documenting runbooks, dashboards, and operational standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with three remote days and two required onsite days each week.
• The role supports production systems requiring reliability, availability, performance, scalability, monitoring, and operational automation.

Hiring process

• Three professional references are required. Each reference must include a name, company name, and phone number with area code; title, email address, and professional relationship are optional.