Senior/Principal DevOps

Job description

Aghanim is an integrated commerce, liveops automation, community engagement, and payments platform for video games. Mobile games have traditionally depended on app stores for distribution, payments, and player relationships. We believe there is a better way. Aghanim helps game studios build direct relationships with players, sell directly, and build their future on their own terms. Today, more than 100 games worldwide are already building this future with Aghanim. Our team brings together people across Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, Beijing, London, Lisbon, Belgrade and other locations around the globe, with deep expertise in gaming, fintech and technology. We move quickly, keep communication direct, and focus on getting things done. We believe the best people thrive when they have autonomy, ownership, and a stake in the company's success. .svg) 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. ## **Key Responsibilities** **Platform Reliability and Scalability** - Own and evolve production infrastructure on GCP and Cloudflare - Ensure platform availability, performance, and reliability in line with SLA/SLO targets - Design and operate systems capable of handling rapid traffic spikes and high-load scenarios - Drive capacity planning, autoscaling, bottleneck removal, and resilience improvements **Kubernetes and Infrastructure** - Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (and Terragrunt where applicable) - Own Kubernetes operations on GKE, including upgrades, scaling, and operational hardening - Maintain platform tooling, deployment infrastructure, and operational standards **Observability and Incident Management** - Build and improve observability using Datadog, including monitoring, logging, and APM - Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements - Reduce operational noise and improve detection of critical system issues **Security and Delivery** - Operate core security tooling and coordinate remediation efforts across teams - Improve deployment reliability and developer experience through CI/CD automation and platform guardrails **Cost Optimization** - Own infrastructure cost visibility, optimization, and FinOps initiatives ## **Required Qualifications** - 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles - Proven experience operating production SaaS infrastructure with defined reliability targets and SLA/SLO ownership - Strong expertise in GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform - Experience with Cloudflare, observability platforms (Datadog or similar), and modern CI/CD practices - Strong automation and scripting skills with a reliability-first mindset - Experience designing and operating scalable, high-availability distributed systems - Familiarity with **SOC 2 / PCI-DSS** audits and security architecture requirements. ## **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience in **game dev** or similarly bursty high-load consumer products. - Mature SRE practices: error budgets, on-call maturity, runbooks, proactive incident prevention. ## **Why Join Us** - **World-class team** – work alongside experienced professionals from around the globe who have built products used by millions of players - **High growth, high impact** – be part of a fast-growing company where ideas turn into products and reach customers in days, not months - **Autonomy and ownership** – we trust people to make decisions, take initiative, and drive results - **Modern tools and technology** – use AI, automation, and modern tools as part of your everyday work - **Equity** – participate in the company's growth and long-term success