Staff Site Reliability Engineer (AWS GovCloud)

Location: Hybrid near Tysons, Virginia, with 3 days per week onsite. Must reside in the U.S. and hold U.S. Citizenship or a Green Card.

Annual base salary: $158,500–$230,000.

Company

hirify.global develops hirify.global Experience Cloud, a SaaS platform for managing customer, employee, patient, candidate, and resident experiences.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate highly available and secure AWS GovCloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, IAM, networking, DNS, certificates, and shared platform services.
• Operate AWS networking end to end, including VPC architecture, routing, security groups, load balancing, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, and segmented connectivity.
• Operate production PostgreSQL with high availability, replication, backups, recovery, performance optimization, upgrades, and capacity planning.
• Develop Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and Kubernetes deployment workflows with Git, CI/CD, and GitOps practices.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, documentation, and recurring problem elimination.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and partner with engineering, security, release management, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

• U.S. residency and U.S. Citizenship or Green Card required for AWS GovCloud compliance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or production infrastructure; alternatively, 5+ years with demonstrated Staff-level scope.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, AWS core services and networking, Terraform, Git, CI/CD, Linux, DNS, TLS/certificates, and PostgreSQL.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go for automation scripts, operational tooling, and infrastructure services.
• Experience with production incidents, root-cause analysis, change management, on-call rotations, technical troubleshooting, runbooks, and post-mortems.

Nice to have

• Experience with FedRAMP, AWS GovCloud, FIPS, vulnerability management, or other regulated cloud environments.
• Deep PostgreSQL operational expertise and familiarity with Redis or Kafka.
• Experience supporting federal agencies, public-sector customers, or government networking and security requirements.
• Experience with observability platforms, Jenkins, Argo CD, or GitHub Enterprise.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular in-office collaboration and remote flexibility.
• Technical leadership opportunities across the GovCloud platform and engineering teams.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), disability, life and AD&D insurance.
• Statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays.
• Equal opportunity workplace focused on diversity and inclusion.