Lead DevOps Engineer

TL;DR

Lead DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes/Terraform): Own deployment, health, and continuous improvement of multi-cloud, multi-region SaaS infrastructure with an accent on resilience at global scale, CI/CD automation, and observability standards. Focus on driving incident response and root-cause analysis while mentoring engineers and shaping the infrastructure roadmap.

Location: Somerville, MA (hybrid; in the office 3+ days/week). Must be a United States citizen.

Salary: $150,000 - $190,000 per year

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-native, cloud-native no-code platform for composable frontline operations.

What you will do

• Own deployment, health, and continuous improvement of multi-cloud, multi-region SaaS environments, including clusters spanning the US, Europe, and Asia.
• Design and evolve cloud architecture to ensure customer availability, stability, and performance as the platform scales globally.
• Drive CI/CD infrastructure toward a fully automated, human-interaction-free software delivery lifecycle.
• Build automation tooling and internal systems to reduce operational toil and increase developer velocity.
• Define and maintain observability standards (metrics, alerting, logging, distributed tracing) and lead incident response with root-cause analysis.
• Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance; participate in on-call rotation and improve on-call practices.

Requirements

• 5-7+ years of hands-on DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production cloud environments at scale.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, and major cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure).
• Experience managing enterprise-grade data persistence layers (SQL/NoSQL, key/value stores, messaging such as AMQP/MQTT).
• Strong observability/monitoring background (e.g., Prometheus, Mimir, Thanos, Grafana) and solid SRE practices in a fast-growing SaaS environment.
• Proven experience mentoring/coaching engineers (formally or informally).
• United States citizenship required.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with an office presence of 3+ days per week.
• Company equity and a competitive benefits package (Health, Dental, Vision, disability, life insurance, AD&D, FSA, commuter benefits).
• Parental leave, 401(K), flexible work schedule, and unlimited vacation policy.
• Virtual company events and happy hours; fitness subsidies.

Hiring process

• Application review with consideration even if not all requirements are met.
• Hiring process may use AI-based tools to support parts of evaluation; candidate data is handled securely and in compliance with local data protection laws.