Site Reliability Engineer II, 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: $103,000–$155,000.

Company

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

What you will do

• Build, operate, and improve highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS GovCloud, including networking, IAM, Kubernetes, DNS, certificates, and shared platform services.
• Manage AWS VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs, VPC endpoints, PrivateLink, and load balancing.
• Operate production PostgreSQL, including replication, backups, recovery, performance tuning, and upgrades.
• Monitor production systems, respond to incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and improve reliability.
• Maintain Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and Kubernetes deployment workflows using Git, CI/CD, and GitOps.
• Improve observability, operational runbooks, security patching, and compliance-driven platform maintenance while participating in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Must reside in the U.S. and hold U.S. Citizenship or a Green Card to meet AWS GovCloud compliance requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or related production infrastructure roles.
• Production experience with AWS or another public cloud, Terraform or comparable IaC tools, Git, CI/CD, Linux, networking, DNS, TLS/certificates, and PostgreSQL or another relational database.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, microservices, Python and/or Go, incident management, root-cause analysis, documentation, runbooks, and post-mortems.
• Experience participating in a production on-call rotation.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular in-office collaboration and remote flexibility.
• Mentorship from senior engineers and opportunities to expand technical ownership.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), disability, life and AD&D insurance, statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays.
• Work in a security-conscious, compliance-driven environment supporting regulated customers.