Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

Location: Hybrid, Manila — 6805 Ayala Ave

Company

hirify.global provides business-critical technology platforms and fosters a collaborative, inclusive workplace.

What you will do

• Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant platforms across on-premises and AWS environments.
• Lead multi-region disaster recovery planning, testing, and validation of RTO/RPO targets.
• Build Terraform-based infrastructure, reusable modules, deployment pipelines, guardrails, and self-healing automation.
• Implement end-to-end observability with metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks.
• Engineer AWS platforms using services including EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, and Secrets Manager.
• Improve performance, scalability, deployment safety, security, compliance, and infrastructure cost efficiency.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS, cloud-native architectures, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong programming experience in Python, Java, or similar languages.
• Deep experience with Linux/Unix systems and strong knowledge of networking, security, and distributed systems.
• Experience operating mission-critical, high-volume platforms.
• Availability for the hybrid role in Manila.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience with EKS/Kubernetes at scale.
• Familiarity with Chaos Engineering and resilience testing.
• Experience leading FinOps and cloud cost-optimization initiatives.
• Experience transitioning traditional infrastructure teams to SRE practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and engaging work environment.
• Inclusive workplace that values authenticity and diverse perspectives.
• Human review is included in employment decisions when AI-based recruiting tools are used.