Staff Network Reliability Engineer, Cloud Operations (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote, United States

Salary: $155,000–$165,000 base salary per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global operates a standards-based, cloud-native satellite connectivity platform that connects smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites across consumer, automotive, and industrial IoT markets.

What you will do

• Own 24x7 cloud infrastructure health across GCP and on-premise private cloud environments, including GKE, bare-metal Kubernetes, storage, networking, and multi-cluster federation.
• Operate and improve the observability stack covering Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki or ELK, Cloud Monitoring, and alert routing.
• Execute infrastructure runbooks and lead L3 incident response for Kubernetes, storage, database, networking, Pub/Sub, ArgoCD, and certificate-related failures.
• Maintain PostgreSQL replication, backup, restore, failover, and performance operations, as well as Redis cluster reliability.
• Define SLOs, track error budgets, lead capacity planning and RCA, and connect infrastructure reliability to network SLA commitments.
• Partner with Network Implementation and Platform Engineering on GitOps changes, operational readiness, automation, security hardening, and infrastructure roadmap requirements.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of infrastructure engineering, SRE, or cloud operations experience in production 24x7 environments with direct Kubernetes on-call ownership.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise, including multi-cluster operations, node pools, RBAC, network policies, PVCs, CSI drivers, operators, and cluster upgrades.
• Hands-on experience with both public cloud, preferably GCP or AWS, and on-premise or private cloud infrastructure.
• Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, PostgreSQL replication, Redis, ArgoCD or Flux CD, Helm, and Terraform or Ansible.
• Strong SRE fundamentals covering SLO/SLI/SLA definition, error budgets, toil reduction, capacity planning, incident response, and on-call operations.
• Ability to write diagnostic runbooks, deliver RCA documentation, and communicate structured infrastructure escalations.

Nice to have

• Telecom, 5G Core, vRAN, NTN, or satellite ground segment infrastructure experience.
• Production-scale Ceph or Rook, KubeVirt, Harvester, OpenStack, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, or software-defined networking experience.
• Go or Python development for infrastructure automation, Kubernetes operators, or lifecycle integrations.
• FinOps experience or relevant certifications such as CKA, CKS, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or RHCA.

Culture & Benefits

• Stock option-based equity program and competitive compensation.
• Medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits.
• Monthly wellness and education reimbursements.
• Generous paid time off, holidays, and an opportunity to temporarily work abroad.
• Opportunity to operate a live commercial direct-to-device satellite network with an international engineering organization.