Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (f/m/x) (AWS)

Location: Hamburg, Germany; flexible hybrid model with work from home on Mondays and Fridays and office work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Company

hirify.global operates a rewarded user engagement and acquisition platform for mobile gaming, helping players discover games and gaming studios create lasting value.

What you will do

• Operate the platform infrastructure across AWS multi-account and multi-region environments, including EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, Kafka, and RabbitMQ.
• Build and maintain Terraform infrastructure, Helm deployments, complex GitLab CI pipelines, and developer tooling.
• Troubleshoot distributed systems, apply SRE principles, perform root cause analysis, and improve production reliability.
• Design backup and disaster recovery strategies for stateless and stateful services.
• Develop observability with Prometheus, Loki, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry, and respond to production incidents.
• Collaborate with developers, data engineers, stakeholders, and DevOps colleagues while sharing knowledge and improving operational workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Strong AWS experience at scale, including IAM, networking, security best practices, and balancing cost, performance, and simplicity.
• Fluency in infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform or a similar tool, with experience building clean, modular, and scalable infrastructure.
• Production Kubernetes experience, including EKS, workload security, and day-2 operations.
• Experience building modern CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI or ArgoCD, with attention to developer experience.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for automation, tooling, and engineering workflow optimization.
• Hands-on observability experience, preferably Datadog in production, together with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or Loki; experience applying SLIs and SLOs and handling incidents.
• Clear communication, strong documentation skills, sound technical reasoning, curiosity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Experience integrating AI tools into engineering and operational tasks, including incident alerts, infrastructure setup, and automated runbooks, with an understanding of agent context, tooling, and safe boundaries.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, focused environment emphasizing speed, ownership, direct communication, and practical improvements.
• Collaborative culture based on respect, trust, accountability, and solving problems proactively.
• Transport subsidy, learning budget, wellness and gym benefits, and workation.
• Bi-weekly team lunches and a flexible hybrid work model in Hamburg.