Engineering Manager (DevOps) (iGaming)

Location: Remote; available from Poland, Portugal, or Ukraine

Company

hirify.global builds a high-performance B2B platform for the global iGaming industry, enabling partners to launch and scale digital gaming products across international markets.

What you will do

• Lead the SRE and Platform Engineering teams, owning roadmaps, priorities, delivery commitments, team structure, and people management.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across infrastructure architecture, production troubleshooting, technical reviews, and complex engineering problems.
• Improve platform availability, resilience, observability, incident response, capacity management, operational readiness, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Drive platform initiatives involving Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, security, scalability, and developer experience.
• Partner with engineering leaders and teams to remove systemic bottlenecks, improve productivity, and ensure the platform supports product delivery.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams while combining technical leadership, delivery ownership, and people management.
• Ability to build realistic roadmaps, break down complex initiatives, establish commitments and deadlines, identify risks, and drive execution to completion.
• Strong communication skills, including explaining technical trade-offs, challenging assumptions constructively, and aligning engineers and leadership.
• Deep hands-on DevOps expertise at the level expected from a Senior, Lead, or Staff DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineer.
• Deep production experience with Google Cloud Platform, including GKE, Compute Engine, networking, IAM, DNS, load balancing, and cloud cost optimization.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise covering architecture, networking, ingress, storage, autoscaling, security, cluster lifecycle, and production troubleshooting.
• Production experience with Terraform or Terragrunt, Helm, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and GitOps using tools such as Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience operating high-availability production environments, participating in on-call rotations, troubleshooting distributed systems, and leading incident response.
• Strong observability knowledge covering metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLOs, and monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, or similar platforms.
• Ability to reason about complex distributed systems, dependencies, failure modes, and trade-offs between reliability, scalability, delivery speed, and cost.

Nice to have

• Experience leading both SRE and Platform Engineering teams or operating high-load, real-time distributed platforms.
• Experience defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; building internal developer platforms or self-service capabilities.
• Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL or AlloyDB, Redis, cloud cost optimization or FinOps initiatives.
• Experience in iGaming, product companies, fast-growing scale-ups, or previous work as a Staff or Principal DevOps Engineer, SRE, Platform Engineer, or Infrastructure Architect.

Culture & Benefits

• Full remote flexibility from Poland, Portugal, or Ukraine.
• Pragmatic execution, clear ownership, direct communication, technical depth, minimal bureaucracy, and fast decision-making.
• Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and bank holidays.
• Growth opportunities, company events, and the opportunity to shape the infrastructure behind systems serving millions of players.