Middle/High-Middle DevOps/SRE Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Middle/High-Middle DevOps/SRE Engineer (Gamedev): Operate and improve production platform in GCP/GKE fronted by Cloudflare with an accent on reliability improvements, monitoring coverage, and CI/CD workflows. Focus on implementing IaC via Terraform/Helm, expanding Datadog observability, incident response, security basics, and cost optimizations in highload systems with traffic spikes.

Location: Onsite in Lisbon, Portugal

Company

hirify.global helps game developers achieve financial and creative independence by providing solutions to launch, run, and grow their businesses.

What you will do

• Operate and support production systems on GCP, primarily GKE and managed services, executing improvements delegated by seniors.
• Implement infrastructure changes via Terraform (and Terragrunt), maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.
• Improve GitHub Actions/CI/CD workflows, deployment automation, and reliability.
• Build and maintain Datadog dashboards/monitors, close monitoring gaps, reduce noisy alerts.
• Participate in incident response: triage, mitigation, escalation, postmortems.
• Run security tooling, triage findings, support secure practices, identify cost optimizations.

Requirements

• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and basic cluster operations.
• Working experience with Terraform and Helm in PR-based workflows.
• Familiarity with GCP services (Cloud SQL, BigQuery, BigTable, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Memorystore).
• Monitoring/alerting and troubleshooting skills (preferably Datadog).
• Strong scripting/automation mindset, reliability awareness under SLA constraints.
• Cloudflare basics, experience with runbooks/postmortems, exposure to SOC 2/PCI-DSS.

Nice to have

• Experience in high-load consumer products or game dev.

Culture & Benefits

• Cloud-only, highload environment with real engineering challenges.
• Small team with ownership, autonomy, quick iteration.
• Strong opportunity to grow into platform ownership and SRE leadership.
• Direct impact on reliability, scalability, developer velocity.