Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/AWS)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/AWS): Designing and implementing scalable reliability systems, observability standards, and automation for Kubernetes-based services with an accent on SLO/SLI-driven operations and reducing alert noise. Focus on building monitors as code, incident workflows, and actionable metrics/logs/traces using engineering principles to improve platform reliability.

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Salary: $130,000–$160,000

Company

hirify.global builds a platform that delivers consistent, reliable service to its client base.

What you will do

• Define, implement, and iterate SLOs and SLIs aligned with customer and business expectations.
• Standardize monitoring and alerting using “monitors as code” (Terraform preferred), including quality gates like severity, ownership, and runbook links.
• Develop observability standards across metrics, logs, and traces, including instrumentation and dependency mapping (OpenTelemetry where applicable).
• Set reliability and operability standards for Kubernetes services, including scaling patterns, resource constraints, rollout safety, and baseline dashboards/alerts for onboarding.
• Drive automation to eliminate toil and improve recovery through incident workflows, runbooks, and remediation.
• Act as Incident Commander for high-severity incidents, lead postmortems, and drive systemic improvements with measurable follow-through.

Requirements

• 7+ years in SRE or related roles with technical seniority across multiple services and teams.
• Strong production experience with AWS and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to define SLOs/SLIs and use them to drive operational and engineering decisions.
• Experience designing observability solutions that produce actionable insights while reducing alert fatigue and operational noise.
• Strong IaC skills (Terraform preferred) and ability to build reusable automation and standards.
• Strong incident response and debugging skills across distributed systems in production environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Office work Monday–Thursday, with flexibility to work remotely on Friday.
• Compensation includes base salary, equity for full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus.
• Comprehensive benefits: employer-matched retirement plan, subsidized healthcare (100% employer-paid dental/vision/telemedicine and virtual mental health counseling), parental leave, and unlimited PTO.

Hiring process

• Interviews focused on SRE/observability/incident leadership experience and technical decision-making.
• Evaluation of practical experience with SLOs/SLIs, monitoring as code, and Kubernetes reliability standards.