Senior Cloud Engineer (GKE)

TL;DR

Senior Cloud Engineer (GKE): Developing and maintaining the GKE Platform for all games at hirify.global with an accent on reliability, performance, and scalability for millions of requests per second. Focus on automating infrastructure provisioning with Terraform/Crossplane, managing complex cloud networhirify.global, and ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployments.

Location: Hybrid work in Stockholm, Sweden.

Company

hirify.global is a leading interactive entertainment company with over 20 years in the mobile gaming industry, known for the Candy Crush franchise, and is part of Microsoft.

What you will do

• Partner closely with game and platform teams to deploy games/services on the GKE platform.
• Manage and optimize GKE clusters for high reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Crossplane for repeatable deployments.
• Design scalable systems for 260+ million players, ensuring performance and availability.
• Oversee cloud networhirify.global (Shared VPC, Cloud Armor, Firewalls, BGP/peering, IPv6, Kubernetes networhirify.global).
• Automate CI/CD with CloudBuild, Jenkins, Atlantis, and ArgoCD for seamless deployments.

Requirements

• Expertise in Cloud Networhirify.global, including BGP/peering, IPv6, Kubernetes networhirify.global, and VPN.
• Hands-on GKE management, cluster optimization, scaling, and troubleshooting skills.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Crossplane.
• Proficiency with CI/CD & GitOps tools like Cloud Build, Jenkins, Atlantis, and ArgoCD.
• Experience with Monitoring & Observability tools such as OTel, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, zero-trust networhirify.global, and secrets management.

Nice to have

• Passion for Gaming & Innovation and eagerness to leverage cutting-edge cloud technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid worhirify.global model focused on team connection, collaboration, and work-life balance.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including private medical, dental, critical illness, and pension plans.
• Generous holiday allowance with additional close-down time off during the festive period.
• Inspiring workspaces offering numerous creative spaces, free breakfast, snacks, and drinks.
• Plentiful learning opportunities through a dedicated platform (LEAP) and leadership coaching.
• Wellbeing offerings, including reimbursements for physical and mental health activities.