Associate Engineer Site Reliability (DevOps)

TL;DR

Associate Engineer Site Reliability (DevOps): Working alongside experienced SREs, learning to operate highly available systems in AWS while contributing to the reliability of our value streams with an accent on incident response, documenting issues and participating in postmortems to drive continuous improvement. Focus on maintaining Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications, developing fundamental container orchestration skills.

Location: Onsite in Greenwood Village, Colorado

Salary: $75,800.00 - $107,075.00

Company

hirify.global transforms financial lives by giving people the freedom to transform their own, offering a flexible work environment and fluid career paths.

What you will do

• Monitor and respond to alerts in production environments, participating in on-call rotations with guidance from senior team members.
• Assist in incident response, documenting issues and participating in postmortems to drive continuous improvement.
• Support deployment pipelines using GitLab CI/Jenkins, learning GitOps practices and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Help maintain Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and containerized applications, developing fundamental container orchestration skills.
• Create and maintain basic monitoring dashboards in Datadog and Splunk under supervision.
• Collaborate with development teams to understand application architecture and reliability requirements.

Requirements

• 0-2 years of relevant experience in systems administration, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Basic understanding of Linux/Unix systems administration.
• Familiarity with at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Bash, Go).
• Foundational knowledge of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing).
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.

Nice to have

• Internship or academic projects involving cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Exposure to containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts.
• AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate).
• Understanding of monitoring and observability concepts.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.