Middle/High-Middle DevOps / SRE Engineer

Responsibilities

• Platform Operations (GCP/GKE)
• Operate and support production systems on GCP , primarily GKE and managed services.
• Execute platform improvements and operational tasks delegated by Senior/Principal owners.
• IaC & Delivery Enablement
• Implement infrastructure changes via Terraform (and Terragrunt where used).
• Maintain and evolve Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.
• Improve reliability of GitHub Actions / CI/CD workflows and deployment automation.
• Observability & Monitoring (Datadog)
• Build and maintain Datadog dashboards/monitors and keep alerting healthy.
• Close monitoring gaps across critical components; reduce noisy alerts and improve signal quality.
• Incident Response
• Participate in incident response and operational support: triage, mitigation using runbooks, escalation, and follow-up fixes.
• Contribute to postmortems with clear facts, timelines, and actionable remediation tasks.
• Security Basics (DevSecOps)
• Run/configure security tooling and monitoring, help triage findings, and implement fixes under guidance.
• Support secure-by-default practices (secrets hygiene, access controls, baseline hardening).
• Cost Awareness
• Identify and implement cost optimizations (right-sizing, waste removal, efficiency improvements) without harming reliability.
• Required Qualifications
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE ) and basic cluster operations.
• Working experience with Terraform and Helm in PR-based workflows.
• Familiarity with GCP services used in SaaS operations (e.g., Cloud SQL, BigQuery, BigTable, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Memorystore ).
• Monitoring/alerting and troubleshooting skills (preferably Datadog ).
• Strong scripting/automation mindset to reduce manual work and prevent repetitive incidents.
• Reliability awareness: understanding how changes affect availability/latency and how to operate under SLA constraints.

Requirements

• Cloudflare basics (WAF/DNS, edge concepts; Workers/CDN is a plus).
• Experience writing/maintaining runbooks and participating in postmortems.
• Exposure to SOC 2 / PCI-DSS requirements or willingness to learn.
• Experience in high-load consumer products or game dev.
• What Success Looks Like
• Improved monitoring coverage and healthier alerting (less noise, faster detection).
• Faster, safer deployments with fewer manual steps and fewer production regressions.
• Incidents are triaged effectively and resolved within expected timelines.
• Platform reliability improves through steady delivery of operational fixes and automation.
• Costs trend in the right direction thanks to recurring optimizations and guardrails.
• Why Join Us
• Cloud-only, highload environment with real engineering challenges (not "just keep the lights on").
• Small team with ownership, autonomy, and quick iteration.
• Strong opportunity to grow into broader platform ownership and SRE leadership paths.
• Direct impact on reliability, scalability, and developer velocity.
• Aghanim helps game developers achieve financial and creative independence by providing the solutions they need to launch, run, and grow their businesses.

Benefits

Additional Information

We're looking for a Middle/High-Middle DevOps / SRE Engineer to help run and improve our production platform in GCP + GKE, fronted by Cloudflare, with observability in Datadog and CI/CD in GitHub Actions. You'll work closely with Senior/Principal engineers, implementing reliability improvements, expanding monitoring coverage, and reducing operational toil-especially important in a highload system with sudden traffic spikes.

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