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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 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.\nYou’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.\nKey Responsibilities\nPlatform Operations\nOperate and improve production systems on GCP, GKE, and related managed services\n\nContribute to platform reliability, scalability, and operational improvements alongside Senior and Principal engineers\n\nInfrastructure & Delivery\nImplement infrastructure changes using Terraform and maintain Kubernetes configurations, Helm charts, and deployment tooling\n\nImprove CI/CD automation and deployment reliability\n\nObservability & Incident Management\nBuild and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability in Datadog\n\nParticipate in incident response, troubleshooting, and postmortem activities\n\nSecurity & Cost Optimization\nSupport security tooling, vulnerability remediation, and secure platform practices\n\nIdentify and implement cost optimization opportunities without compromising reliability\n\nRequired Qualifications\nHands-on production experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and basic cluster operations.\n\nWorking experience with Terraform and Helm in PR-based workflows.\n\nFamiliarity with GCP services used in SaaS operations (e.g., Cloud SQL, BigQuery, BigTable, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Memorystore).\n\nMonitoring/alerting and troubleshooting skills (preferably Datadog).\n\nStrong scripting/automation mindset to reduce manual work and prevent repetitive incidents.\n\nReliability awareness: understanding how changes affect availability/latency and how to operate under SLA constraints.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nCloudflare basics (WAF/DNS, edge concepts; Workers/CDN is a plus).\n\nExperience writing/maintaining runbooks and participating in postmortems.\n\nExposure to SOC 2 / PCI-DSS requirements or willingness to learn.\n\nExperience in high-load consumer products or game dev.\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":3540,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"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":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.259,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":102,"expected_fill_days":39,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aghanim-sre-high-middle-devops","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aghanim-sre-high-middle-devops.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T04:34:00Z","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":2857,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2143,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}