SRE Leader (AWS)

TL;DR

SRE Leader (AWS/Kubernetes): Owning the reliability, performance, and automation of a cloud-based real-time healthcare platform with an accent on uptime, observability, and self-healing systems. Focus on scaling high-traffic infrastructure, implementing SLIs/SLOs, and ensuring compliance with HIPAA and SOC 2 standards.

Location: Hybrid (New York City)

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-powered platform that automates and orchestrates clinical workflows to improve efficiency in hospitals.

What you will do

• Ensure 99.99% uptime across the cloud platform, meeting strict SLAs for healthcare customers.
• Architect and manage scalable AWS infrastructure and optimize Kubernetes and Docker environments.
• Lead the adoption of Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to fully automate management.
• Build and refine monitoring, alerting, and logging systems using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
• Lead incident response, on-call operations, and conduct blameless postmortems to improve resilience.
• Partner with Security & Compliance teams to ensure infrastructure meets HIPAA and SOC 2 standards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
• Strong background in observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
• Proven experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, and Terraform.
• Mature leadership approach with the ability to drive technical strategy and mentor engineers.
• Strong understanding of network security and compliance frameworks like HIPAA and SOC 2.

Nice to have

• Experience with healthcare IT, including EHR data, FHIR, and HL7 interoperability.
• Expertise in real-time distributed systems or large-scale data pipelines.
• Prior experience leading major incident management processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to own mission-critical reliability for a healthcare platform with 99.99% uptime.
• Work with cutting-edge AI-powered infrastructure and self-healing cloud systems.
• Automation-first culture focused on minimizing manual operations.
• Collaborate with a high-performing team of AI experts and healthcare innovators.