Senior DevOps Engineer (Game Development)

Location: On-site at the headquarters in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. A relocation package is available, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and transition support.

Company

hirify.global is an independent developer and publisher of video games, films, board games, books, comics, and graphic novels.

What you will do

• Own and continuously improve the reliability, availability, and scalability of production cloud infrastructure in a LiveOps environment.
• Design and implement secure, resilient cloud architectures using Infrastructure as Code, with Pulumi as a core technology.
• Develop and maintain cloud automation, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized infrastructure in collaboration with code and build teams.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, health metrics, and operational control across the cloud estate.
• Lead incident management and root cause analysis, implementing improvements to prevent recurring production issues.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and support reliable, efficient game delivery workflows.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or a similar production-focused role.
• Strong experience with Git and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Experience designing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code; Pulumi experience is desirable.
• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, incident response, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with Docker, ECS, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, or other containerized infrastructure.
• Permanent right to work in the United Kingdom is required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience with Microsoft PlayFab or Perforce.
• Experience in games or another LiveOps environment.
• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership within a DevOps or Platform team.

Culture & Benefits

• Open, friendly, creative, and team-oriented working environment at the Oxford headquarters.
• 22 days of holiday, Christmas closure, and bank holidays, increasing with length of service.
• Private medical insurance, healthcare cash plan, dental and vision coverage.
• Life assurance, income protection, critical illness cover, enhanced family leave, and an enhanced pension scheme.
• Mental health and wellbeing support, free parking, discounts, social events, and other employee benefits.