Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Public Sector)

TL;DR

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Public Sector): Applying SRE principles to manage and secure AWS GovCloud (US) infrastructure for government systems, with an accent on high availability, performance, and compliance frameworks like FedRAMP and NIST 800-53. Focus on managing Kubernetes workloads, implementing GitOps deployments, and driving automation and continuous improvement in regulated environments.

Location: Must be based in the United States and have US Citizenship for AWS GovCloud access.

Company

hirify.global is a Series B unicorn that provides AI-powered identity verification solutions for finance, government, retail, hospitality, gaming, and other universal industries.

What you will do

• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to ensure high availability, performance, and operational resilience of GovCloud systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident mitigation, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Manage and maintain AWS GovCloud infrastructure including EKS, DocumentDB, RDS PostgreSQL, Kafka, OpenSearch, and S3.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads using Amazon EKS, Helm charts, and ArgoCD with GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Partner with Engineering and Security teams to implement and enforce secure system design and operational controls aligned with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and FISMA.
• Use Infrastructure as Code and automation to improve consistency, scalability, and reliability across environments.

Requirements

• US Citizenship required (mandatory for AWS GovCloud access).
• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure-focused roles.
• Strong hands-on experience operating AWS GovCloud environments.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, and production containerized systems.
• Expert-level experience with Terraform.
• Experience working with federal or industry security standards like FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, FISMA, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
• Working knowledge of Python and Bash, with familiarity in Go for Kubernetes-related operations.

Culture & Benefits

• High-performance, freedom & responsibility, and continuous feedback culture.
• Flexible Working Hours & Workplace.
• Open Vacation Policy.