Site Reliability Engineer - Vice President (Kubernetes)

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States; office work Monday–Thursday with remote work available on Friday

Salary: $130,000–$160,000 base salary annually, depending on level

Company

hirify.global provides a platform for its client base and operates a Site Reliability Engineering function focused on consistent, reliable service delivery.

What you will do

• Define and iterate service level objectives and indicators that reflect customer and business expectations.
• Standardize monitoring and alerting through monitors as code, preferably with Terraform, including severity, ownership, and runbook quality gates.
• Develop observability standards across metrics, logs, and traces, including OpenTelemetry instrumentation and dependency mapping.
• Define reliability and operability standards for Kubernetes services, including scaling, resource constraints, rollout safety, dashboards, and alerts.
• Automate incident workflows, runbooks, remediation, and other toil-reduction initiatives.
• Serve as Incident Commander, lead postmortems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive measurable reliability improvements.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE or related roles, demonstrating technical seniority across multiple services and teams.
• Strong production experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining SLOs and SLIs and applying them to operational and engineering decisions.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills, preferably Terraform, with experience building reusable automation and configuration standards.
• Experience with data stores and managed services such as Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB, including distributed-system failure modes.
• Experience with at least two observability stacks, strong incident response and debugging skills, and clear written and verbal communication.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid schedule with office collaboration Monday–Thursday and remote flexibility on Friday.
• Salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus.
• Employer-matched retirement plan and subsidized healthcare.
• Employer-paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling.
• Parental leave and unlimited paid time off.