Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer: Ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of hirify.global and Talend Cloud services for millions of transactions across a global cloud environment. Focus on designing, improving, automating, and elevating modern cloud platforms, specifically with Kubernetes at scale, complex distributed systems, and real-time analytics.

Location: Hybrid in Ottawa, Canada, or remote from Ontario, Canada

Salary: $100,000–$133,000 CAD

Company

hirify.global transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes for over 40,000 global customers by leveraging pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities.

What you will do

• Increase reliability and availability of cloud infrastructure and reduce incidents through automation and proactive engineering.
• Strengthen scalability and improve cloud efficiency by driving optimization best practices across AWS and Azure environments.
• Resolve complex system challenges across infrastructure, networking, applications, and distributed systems.
• Design, build, and optimize tooling, automation, and scalable infrastructure patterns.
• Collaborate with Global SRE, Architecture, Platform, and Domain Engineering teams to influence infrastructure design.
• Participate in on-call duties to maintain cloud infrastructure availability and mentor peers on reliability-first thinking.

Requirements

• Strong cloud engineering skills in AWS and/or Azure, with hands-on experience supporting production systems running on Kubernetes at scale.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane, Ansible) for operating distributed systems.
• Expertise in automation using Python, Go, or Bash, including building and improving CI/CD pipelines and autoscaling strategies.
• Deep understanding of observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, SIEM) and incident management.
• Knowledge of security (secret management like Vault, AWS SSM) and networking best practices.
• Strong analytical thinking for troubleshooting complex issues and comfortable with on-call support rotation.

Culture & Benefits

• Recognized as one of National Capital Region's 2025 Top Employers in Canada.
• Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs.
• Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness.
• Flexible, diverse, and international work environment.
• Offers an extra "change the world" day and another for personal development.
• Encourages participation in Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs.