Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Azure)

TL;DR

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Azure): Building scalable, resilient, and observable systems for global SaaS products with an accent on platform scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency. Focus on architecting cloud-native infrastructure, improving observability strategies, and mentoring engineering teams to ensure system reliability.

Location: Hybrid: Must be based in Cork, Ireland or Prague, Czech Republic (3 days in office/week)

Company

hirify.global is a provider of SaaS products focused on software testing and quality engineering.

What you will do

• Lead cross-cutting initiatives to improve platform scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Architect and implement cloud-native infrastructure for multi-region, multi-tenant deployments
• Drive observability strategy, including the definition of SLOs, error budgets, and alerting standards
• Coach and mentor engineers through technical design reviews and engineering excellence
• Own post-incident analysis and implement preventive action learning loops
• Establish and evolve standards for deployments, operational readiness, and incident response

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles, including technical leadership
• Expertise in building and operating production systems in Azure
• Deep understanding of observability principles (SLOs, SLIs, metrics, traces, logs)
• Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions
• Proven track record in leading technical projects and influencing architecture
• Must be based in or able to work from Cork (Ireland) or Prague (Czech Republic)

Culture & Benefits

• Environment empowering trust, transparency, creativity, and continuous improvement
• Strong value system focused on self-awareness, efficiency, and collaborative problem solving
• Commitment to being an equal opportunity workplace for all backgrounds
• Focus on professional growth and technical leadership within a global SRE organization