Senior/Principal DevOps

Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Ownership
• Own and evolve production infrastructure on GCP and Cloudflare (cloud-only, no on-prem).
• Maintain high availability and performance for a SaaS platform serving both B2B and B2C use cases.
• Scalability & Highload Resilience
• Design and operate for unpredictable spikes where load can jump 10-20× within seconds .
• Build scaling strategies across compute, networking, and data layers (autoscaling, capacity planning, bottleneck removal, safe degradation patterns).
• SLA/SLO & Incident Excellence
• Be accountable for reliability outcomes: availability/latency/error rates tied to SLA/SLO.
• Lead incident response practices: detection → mitigation → postmortem → permanent fixes (root cause elimination).
• IaC & Kubernetes Platform Operations
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (and Terragrunt where applicable).
• Own Kubernetes operations on GKE : upgrades, scaling, operational hardening.
• Write and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests where needed.
• Observability (Datadog)
• Build end-to-end observability using Datadog (metrics/logs/APM): dashboards, monitors, alert strategy.
• Ensure critical system paths and dependencies are visible and actionable (reduce alert noise, increase signal).
• DevSecOps Baseline
• Configure and operate security tooling and monitoring (e.g., Security Command Center , scanners/analyzers).
• Triage findings and either fix issues directly or delegate remediation to the right teams.
• CI/CD Enablement
• Collaborate with engineering to streamline and harden GitHub Actions / GitHub CI/CD pipelines.
• Increase deployment safety and speed through automation and platform guardrails.
• Cost Management
• Own cost visibility and optimization: identify waste, right-size resources, and implement practical FinOps controls.
• Required Qualifications
• Strong production experience in DevOps/SRE (typically 5+ years, but we value impact over years).
• Proven experience operating infrastructure for SaaS with explicit SLA commitments (B2B + B2C is a plus).
• Hands-on expertise with GCP , especially GKE , plus relevant managed services (e.g., Cloud SQL, BigQuery, BigTable, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Run, Cloud Deploy, Memorystore ).
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform (bonus: Terragrunt ).
• Strong Kubernetes operations background (GKE at scale, reliability practices, upgrades, scaling).
• Experience with Cloudflare (WAF/DNS/edge basics; Workers/CDN is a plus).
• Production observability experience with Datadog (or comparable), ideally including APM/logging.
• Strong scripting/automation skills and a reliability-first mindset.

Requirements

• Experience in game dev or similarly bursty high-load consumer products.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 / PCI-DSS audits and security architecture requirements.
• Service mesh experience (e.g., Cloud Service Mesh ) in production.
• Mature SRE practices: error budgets, on-call maturity, runbooks, proactive incident prevention.
• What Success Looks Like
• Platform consistently meets or exceeds SLA/SLO targets under bursty highload.
• Incidents are detected early, mitigated quickly, and don't repeat due to strong postmortem follow-through.
• Scaling events (10-50×) are routine rather than heroic.
• Cloud spend is transparent, controlled, and optimized without harming reliability.
• Engineering teams ship faster with safer, smoother CI/CD and fewer infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Why Join Us
• Cloud-only infrastructure (GCP) with meaningful scale and real reliability ownership.
• Small team (15-20 engineers) with high autonomy and fast decision-making.
• Direct impact on platform stability, scaling, and cost efficiency.
• Opportunity to shape SRE culture, tooling, and operational standards in a fast-growing startup.
• 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 Senior/Principal DevOps to own our cloud-only platform and keep it reliable under high-load and bursty traffic. Our services run entirely on GCP, fronted by Cloudflare, with deep observability in Datadog and CI/CD in GitHub Actions. This is a hands-on role with real ownership: ensuring we meet our SLA/SLOs, scaling fast (10-50×), and keeping infrastructure efficient and cost-conscious as the company grows and microservices multiply.

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