Senior/Principal DevOps at Aghanim

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. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES 1. 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. 2. 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). 3. 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). 4. 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. 5. 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). 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 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.