DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes): Implementing and evolving infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability posture with an accent on scalability, observability, and resilience. Focus on automating infrastructure as code, optimizing Kubernetes clusters, and eliminating operational toil.

Location: Houston, TX

Company

hirify.global is a company focused on distributed energy and grid reliability solutions.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, reliable deployments.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability systems using Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Manage on-prem baremetal servers, virtualized assets, and Linux-based infrastructure.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and participate in incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Collaborate with development teams on system design, capacity planning, and performance optimization.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Strong experience with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.
• Proficiency with Terraform and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
• Strong Linux systems administration skills and a solid understanding of networking, DNS, and load balancing.
• Proficiency in scripting with Bash, Python, or Go.

Nice to have

• Experience with Proxmox VE.
• Cloud platform certifications such as AWS SA or CKA.
• Contributions to internal developer platforms or platform engineering initiatives.

Culture & Benefits

• Commitment to operational excellence and a culture of blameless postmortems.
• Equal Opportunity Employer ensuring fair treatment and non-discrimination.
• Opportunity to drive the reliability posture of critical energy infrastructure systems.