Senior DevOps Engineer (Gaming)

Location: Willingness to work from one of the offices in Almaty, Tbilisi, Yerevan, or Limassol; hybrid or office work types available

Company

hirify.global is an independent gaming studio developing OneState, a Social RolePlay game with geographically distributed infrastructure and rapidly growing scale.

What you will do

• Develop and scale infrastructure for game services and support growing production loads.
• Ensure the stability and reliability of production systems.
• Support backend teams with developing, deploying, and maintaining backend services.
• Develop monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems.
• Detect, diagnose, resolve, and validate solutions for production issues.
• Develop CI/CD and GitOps processes, automate infrastructure operations, and make technical decisions independently.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure.
• Experience with geographically distributed infrastructure and high-load systems.
• Strong Kubernetes experience, including architecture, scaling, and root cause analysis.
• Experience with AWS or GCP, plus deep understanding of Linux and networking.
• Experience with GitOps and CI/CD.
• Experience building and maintaining observability systems covering monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting, with the ability to independently identify and diagnose issues.
• Experience administering and optimizing relational and/or columnar databases.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Proactive and self-driven approach, including independently identifying problems, proposing solutions, and making technical decisions.
• Russian language proficiency at C1 level.

Nice to have

• Programming skills for infrastructure automation with Bash, Python, or Go.
• Experience using AI tools or agents to automate tasks.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hours with the option to take days off.
• Paid sick days and assistance in difficult life situations.
• Regular salary reviews based on performance and a promotion system.
• Investment in specialist growth and development.
• Hybrid or office work options without unnecessary bureaucracy.

Hiring process

• Application review through the careers portal, followed by an HR interview.
• One or more technical interviews may be required, followed by a final interview with a hiring manager or team lead.
• If there is no response within 14 calendar days, the application is not moving forward at this stage.