Middle/High-Middle DevOps / SRE Engineer at Aghanim

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. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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). 6. 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. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 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.