Infrastructure Specialist (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote within the United States; Austin, Boston, or New York City

Estimated total compensation: $125,000–$130,000 per year, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow for reliable data products, analytics, AI, and data-driven applications.

What you will do

• Operate, monitor, and maintain cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters supporting the managed Airflow service.
• Provide technical solutions, troubleshoot customer environments, and lead incident triage with customers.
• Participate in the weekend on-call rotation, meet SLAs, and permanently resolve or monitor production issues.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and operational automation to improve platform reliability.
• Provide customer feedback to product development teams and contribute to product architecture.
• Improve customer documentation and provide guidance through the path to production.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience with large, complex cloud infrastructures operating at scale.
• 3 years of experience with Kubernetes.
• Production distributed-systems experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong Linux, troubleshooting, distributed-systems monitoring, and customer-support experience.
• DevOps or CI/CD experience and Python scripting skills.
• Strong communication skills and willingness to participate in weekend on-call coverage.

Nice to have

• Site Reliability Engineer experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes Custom Resources, Azure, Airflow or big-data orchestration, and infrastructure as code.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely as part of a fully distributed team.
• Work with customers across different industries, cloud providers, and technical environments.
• Use current technologies and multi-cloud implementations.
• Receive equity and a comprehensive benefits package.