Middle/High-Middle DevOps / SRE Engineer

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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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).

1. 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.

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