Senior/Principal DevOps (GCP)

TL;DR

Senior/Principal DevOps (GCP): Own and evolve production infrastructure for a SaaS platform serving game developers with an accent on high availability, scalability for bursty high-load traffic, and deep observability. Focus on designing autoscaling strategies, leading incident response and postmortems, building IaC with Terraform, and operating Kubernetes on GKE.

Location: On-site in Lisbon, Portugal

Company

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

What you will do

• Own and evolve cloud infrastructure on GCP and Cloudflare, maintaining high availability for SaaS serving B2B and B2C.
• Design scaling strategies for 10–50× load spikes across compute, networking, and data layers.
• Account for SLA/SLO outcomes: lead incident detection, mitigation, postmortems, and root cause fixes.
• Build and maintain IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt, own GKE operations, Helm charts, and manifests.
• Implement end-to-end observability in Datadog: dashboards, monitors, alerts for metrics/logs/APM.
• Configure DevSecOps tooling, triage security findings, and optimize CI/CD in GitHub Actions.
• Manage costs with FinOps: visibility, right-sizing, and waste reduction.

Requirements

• 5+ years production DevOps/SRE experience with impact on high-load SaaS and SLA commitments.
• Hands-on GCP expertise, especially GKE and services like Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub.
• Strong IaC with Terraform; Kubernetes operations at scale.
• Cloudflare experience; Datadog for observability.
• Scripting/automation skills and reliability mindset.
• On-site in Lisbon required.

Nice to have

• Game dev or bursty high-load consumer products experience.
• SOC 2/PCI-DSS audits; service mesh like Cloud Service Mesh.
• Mature SRE practices: error budgets, on-call, runbooks.

Culture & Benefits

• Small team (15–20 engineers) with high autonomy and fast decision-making.
• Cloud-only infrastructure with real ownership on stability, scaling, costs.
• Shape SRE culture, tooling, and standards in fast-growing startup.