Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Azure)

TL;DR

Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Azure): Leading the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of a cloud-based government software platform with an accent on infrastructure modernization and containerization. Focus on defining SLOs, driving incident response, and mentoring engineering teams to ensure high availability and security in a large-scale SaaS environment.

Location: Must be based in the US

Salary: $160,000–$185,000

Company

hirify.global provides a robust, cloud-based platform of government software solutions designed to improve efficiency, transparency, and citizen engagement for communities of all sizes.

What you will do

• Lead platform modernization initiatives, transitioning from VM-based architectures to containerized, cloud-native services.
• Define and operate service level objectives (SLOs), SLAs, and error budgets to drive risk-based decision making.
• Design and maintain automation and tooling to improve system reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
• Drive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for production incidents and facilitate blameless postmortems.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure operations meet SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and PCI-DSS standards.
• Mentor engineers across the organization and influence best practices in cloud engineering.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, Software Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure within a SaaS environment.
• Must be based in the US.
• Hands-on experience operating large-scale SaaS platforms on Microsoft Azure.
• Technical leadership experience in containerized environments, specifically Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting using Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Strong expertise in modern observability platforms (metrics, logging, distributed tracing).

Nice to have

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible).
• Knowledge of GitOps methodologies (Argo CD or Flux).
• Experience with public-sector compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, StateRAMP).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
• Flexible time off and family planning benefits.
• Health savings account (HSA) with company contributions.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.