Senior Infrastructure Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Building and maintaining scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure and data platforms with an accent on Kubernetes, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code. Focus on migrating legacy systems, improving observability, and supporting critical data infrastructure components.

Location: Global remote

Company

hirify.global provides top-tier technology talent for innovative companies in the US, with a client focused on analytics and revenue solutions for top media brands.

What you will do

• Build and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure on AWS.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
• Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Improve observability systems (Grafana, monitoring pipelines).
• Support data infrastructure including Kafka, Snowflake, Hive Metastore, and PostgreSQL/MySQL.
• Help migrate workloads from legacy systems (Mesos, Salt) to modern alternatives.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation.

Requirements

• English: C1 (fluent speaking and writing).
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on Infrastructure/Platform/SRE experience.
• 4+ years of full-time hands-on Terraform (modules, state management) experience.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on Kubernetes (deployment, troubleshooting) experience.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on AWS (IAM, networking, RDS, EC2) experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on Python experience.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, security groups).
• Experience with GitOps practices (ArgoCD or similar).

Nice to have

• Experience with Bazel build systems.
• Familiarity with Salt or similar configuration management.
• Knowledge of data infrastructure: Kafka, Snowflake, Hive Metastore.
• Experience with Elasticsearch operations.
• Familiarity with Consul for service discovery.
• Experience with Sensu or similar monitoring.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to learn and evolve skills using the latest technology tools.
• Work on challenging problems that positively impact many people's lives.
• 100% remote work flexibility, work from anywhere in the world.
• Be part of a rapidly growing team making meaningful contributions.
• Client-first approach, ownership, and passion for quality outcomes.