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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.\nOur 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.\nWe’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.\nThis 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nPlatform Reliability and Scalability\nOwn and evolve production infrastructure on GCP and Cloudflare\n\nEnsure platform availability, performance, and reliability in line with SLA/SLO targets\n\nDesign and operate systems capable of handling rapid traffic spikes and high-load scenarios\n\nDrive capacity planning, autoscaling, bottleneck removal, and resilience improvements\n\nKubernetes and Infrastructure\nBuild and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (and Terragrunt where applicable)\n\nOwn Kubernetes operations on GKE, including upgrades, scaling, and operational hardening\n\nMaintain platform tooling, deployment infrastructure, and operational standards\n\nObservability and Incident Management\nBuild and improve observability using Datadog, including monitoring, logging, and APM\n\nLead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements\n\nReduce operational noise and improve detection of critical system issues\n\nSecurity and Delivery\nOperate core security tooling and coordinate remediation efforts across teams\n\nImprove deployment reliability and developer experience through CI/CD automation and platform guardrails\n\nCost Optimization\nOwn infrastructure cost visibility, optimization, and FinOps initiatives\n\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles\n\nProven experience operating production SaaS infrastructure with defined reliability targets and SLA/SLO ownership\n\nStrong expertise in GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform\n\nExperience with Cloudflare, observability platforms (Datadog or similar), and modern CI/CD practices\n\nStrong automation and scripting skills with a reliability-first mindset\n\nExperience designing and operating scalable, high-availability distributed systems\n\nFamiliarity with SOC 2 / PCI-DSS audits and security architecture requirements.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in game dev or similarly bursty high-load consumer products.\n\nMature SRE practices: error budgets, on-call maturity, runbooks, proactive incident prevention.\n\nWhy Join Us\nWorld-class team - work alongside experienced professionals from around the globe who have built products used by millions of players\n\nHigh growth, high impact - be part of a fast-growing company where ideas turn into products and reach customers in days, not months\n\nAutonomy and ownership - we trust people to make decisions, take initiative, and drive results\n\nModern tools and technology - use AI, automation, and modern tools as part of your everyday work\n\nEquity - participate in the company's growth and long-term success","description_format":"text","description_chars":3947,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-10T22:17:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.214,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":103,"expected_fill_days":32,"reasons":["conf:8","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aghanim-seniorprincipal-devops","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aghanim-seniorprincipal-devops.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T03:36:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3344,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1656,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}