Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/AWS)

Location: Remote, must be located in the GMT timezone: UK, Ireland, Portugal, or the Canary Islands

Company

hirify.global builds Develocity, a SaaS toolchain observability and intelligence platform with build acceleration, deep observability, and AI-powered capabilities.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain Develocity instances, artifact registries, and supporting services.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, lead incident response, troubleshoot issues across the application and infrastructure stack, and communicate with customers during incidents and maintenance windows.
• Automate deployments, upgrades, monitoring, self-healing, recovery, backups, and disaster-recovery processes.
• Build and maintain observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Work with engineering and Cloud Platform teams to build reliability into features and improve internal platform tooling.
• Optimize performance, resource usage, costs, and SaaS operations as the platform grows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or an equivalent role operating production services at scale.
• Strong production Kubernetes experience and cloud infrastructure expertise, preferably with AWS, including EKS, RDS, S3, and EC2.
• Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Python, and Bash.
• Experience with incident management, 24/7 on-call rotations, SRE practices, SLAs, and SLOs.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills required.
• Must be located in the GMT timezone.

Nice to have

• Experience operating SaaS platforms at scale or establishing SRE practices in new or growing teams.
• Familiarity with Develocity and JVM languages such as Java or Kotlin.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning, execution, and customer-facing incident communication.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, work-from-home environment with asynchronous communication and written documentation.
• Founding role in a new SRE team with ownership of operational practices and production systems.
• Culture focused on automation over heroics, continuous learning, and clear ownership of outcomes.
• In-person annual offsites and team meetings.
• Competitive salary and equity grants.