Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: McLean, Virginia, United States

Annual base salary: $128,500–$190,000

Company

hirify.global provides the hirify.global Experience Cloud, a SaaS platform for managing experiences, insights, and actions across customer, employee, patient, and resident journeys.

What you will do

• Design, build, operate, and evolve highly available, scalable, and secure production platforms.
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve application reliability, performance, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Lead complex incident investigations, root cause analyses, and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Build automation, self-service capabilities, infrastructure-as-code, deployment tooling, and platform solutions that reduce operational toil.
• Support CI/CD and GitOps workflows and design observability strategies covering monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Drive SRE practices, platform standards, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and operational improvements across engineering teams; mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years leading reliability, platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud operations initiatives in production environments.
• Experience operating large-scale production environments, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and cloud platforms such as AWS, OCI, or GCP.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, plus automation development with Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code technologies, CI/CD, GitOps, distributed systems, and production incident response.
• Understanding of DNS, load balancing, TLS/SSL, routing, service networking, and operational reliability practices.
• Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and participate in a rotating on-call schedule.

Nice to have

• Experience with ArgoCD, multi-region or hybrid-cloud environments, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with platform engineering, self-service infrastructure, high-scale SaaS, capacity planning, performance engineering, and resilience testing.
• Knowledge of canary, blue/green, progressive delivery, feature flags, security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience using AI-assisted development, automation, or operational tooling to improve productivity and reliability.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a Site Reliability Engineering organization supporting a global SaaS platform.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), disability coverage, life and AD&D insurance.
• Statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays.
• Equal opportunity workplace with accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.