Senior SRE Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid) / Remote

Company

hirify.global develops and operates digital platforms supported by scalable cloud infrastructure and reliability engineering.

What you will do

• Improve availability, scalability, and resilience across hirify.global's platforms.
• Own and operate EKS-based infrastructure and core AWS services, including VPC and RDS.
• Design and scale CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, and Helm-based deployments.
• Strengthen disaster recovery, failover mechanisms, and progressive delivery with automated validation.
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, metrics, tracing, and visualization dashboards while establishing SLOs.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems, converting findings into durable fixes and supporting engineering teams with infrastructure issues.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise, including cluster troubleshooting and management of controllers or CRDs.
• Advanced Terraform or OpenTofu skills, including module architecture and production state management.
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD, Helm, GitHub Actions, and production CI/CD automation.
• Ability to write production-grade Go or Python and robust shell scripts.
• Expertise in AWS, distributed systems, high-availability production environments, infrastructure initiatives, and operational support.

Nice to have

• Experience with Crossplane or other Kubernetes-native infrastructure provisioning solutions.
• Deep observability experience with Datadog or Prometheus, including SLOs, dashboards, and alerting.
• Knowledge of secrets management frameworks.
• Experience with Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, or other cluster-efficiency technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual-contributor role within the engineering organization.
• Work in a high-performance environment with significant infrastructure ownership and impact.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and non-discrimination.
• Starting pay is determined by role, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.

Hiring process

• Apply for consideration; compensation and final offer details are determined based on role-related qualifications and work location.