Senior Systems Engineer, Production

TL;DR

Senior Systems Engineer, Production: Builds and operates systems to power cloud-based products and services, focusing on automation, observability, and reliability. Focus on improving performance, cost efficiency, and security posture across hirify.global’s production environments.

Location: This role is available to candidates across Canada, excluding Quebec. If you are local to one of our hubs (Burnaby, Calgary, or Toronto) you will be expected to be in office minimum twice per week on one of our Anchor Days.

Salary: $146,200 to $197,800 CAD

Company

hirify.global is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain the AWS infrastructure supporting hirify.global’s production environments.
• Implement and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ensuring reproducibility and compliance.
• Collaborate with developers to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and overall developer experience.
• Enhance observability and reliability, refining alerting, monitoring, and incident response.
• Lead cloud optimization projects, improving performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.

Requirements

• Deep experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS infrastructure and managed services (like RDS, EKS, Lambda) at scale.
• Strong expertise with Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Proficiency in container orchestration and cluster management.
• A strong foundation with coding skills either with application development, or building automation and tooling.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities, with a focus on knowledge sharing and team collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) on AWS in production environments.
• Expertise with best practices for managing and securing Cloud environments at scale.
• Prior experience in platform engineering or developer productivity teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance.
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local hirify.globalns (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
• $2000 annual counseling benefit.
• RRSP matching and RESP contribution.
• hirify.globalversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.