Senior DevOps Engineer

TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes/AWS): Operate and improve platform tools for reliable product team deployments with an accent on Kubernetes operations, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks. Focus on maintaining self-service workflows, monitoring with Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, and incident response during on-call rotations.

Location: United States - Remote (any location), Complete EST Overlap

Company

hirify.global is a digital innovation and enterprise AI services provider helping startups and enterprises with AI-driven solutions and complex problem-solving.

What you will do

• Operate platform tools, triage tickets, fix build issues, and handle service requests like access and environment setup.
• Maintain self-service workflows by updating docs, examples, and guardrails under senior guidance.
• Perform Kubernetes operations: deploy Helm charts, manage namespaces, diagnose issues, and follow incident runbooks.
• Support CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI: keep pipelines green, adjust jobs, implement quality gates, and promote safer deploy strategies.
• Monitor observability stack with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos; maintain alerts, dashboards, SLOs, and reduce noise.
• Assist with service instrumentation using OpenTelemetry for tracing, logging, and metrics.
• Contribute to documentation like runbooks, FAQs, and onboarding guides; participate in on-call rotation.
• Perform cost- and performance-optimizations like right-sizing workloads and automating tasks.

Requirements

• 8+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps or infrastructure role with automation focus
• Experience operating Kubernetes and tools like Helm, Docker, Ingress NGINX
• Hands-on CI/CD with GitLab CI: jobs, artifacts, environments, deployment strategies
• Scripting in Bash or Python
• AWS fundamentals: IAM, EC2/EKS, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager
• Observability: Prometheus/Alertmanager/Thanos, OpenTelemetry basics
• Work from tickets (Jira/ServiceNow), change-management, stakeholder communication

Nice to have

• Terraform for IaC
• API integration with Java, Python, or Go
• Deep Linux and container runtime knowledge
• Insurance/financial services experience with compliance

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial spirit with self-reliance, open communication, and collaboration
• Advanced training opportunities to apply in real business solutions
• Passion for technology, responsibility, and challenging problems expected