Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States; hybrid schedule based in the Reston office

Salary: $135,800–$183,800 annual base salary, with potential discretionary bonus and stock awards for eligible roles.

Company

hirify.global provides internet infrastructure services focused on the security, stability, and resiliency of the domain name system.

What you will do

• Design and migrate products to shared on-premises and AWS Kubernetes environments.
• Install, configure, maintain, and secure physical hosts supporting production and non-production applications.
• Develop deployment automation with Ansible and orchestrate Kubernetes workloads.
• Coordinate with technical staff and software developers to deploy systems and services.
• Provide operational support, isolate and resolve problems, and document configurations and deployment plans.
• Provide technical leadership and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent education and experience.
• 8+ years of experience deploying and operating mission-critical systems.
• Strong Linux configuration and administration, infrastructure-as-code, automation, networking, and physical server knowledge.
• Production experience with Kubernetes workloads, Docker, OpenStack, and large-scale Unix-like systems.
• Experience with RHEL 8/9, SELinux, IBM POWER hardware, AIX, ServiceNow, Python, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, troubleshooting ability, and experience with network tools such as ping, traceroute, and dig.

Nice to have

• Experience working with teams using Kanban and/or Scrum.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-focused work supporting critical internet services.
• Dynamic and flexible work environment.
• Competitive benefits.
• Opportunities for professional growth and career development.
• Discretionary performance-based bonus and potential stock awards for eligible roles.