Job details
Cooperation: B2B, Hybrid, Remote
Seniority levels: Principal
Languages: English - B1, Russian - Fluent
Skills: SRE, CI/CD, Cloud, Kubernetes, Linux, Python
We are an international GameDev company developing and scaling successful mobile games for a global audience. The company has been operating for more than eight years, and one of its key products serves 15M+ users.
We are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps / Infrastructure Lead with a strong GameDev background to take ownership of infrastructure engineering, develop the DevOps team, and define the technical direction of infrastructure for a large-scale mobile gaming product.
Previous professional experience in GameDev is a mandatory requirement for this role.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering team.
- Define the infrastructure strategy, architecture, and engineering standards.
- Design and scale highly available, fault-tolerant multi-cloud infrastructure.
- Own Infrastructure as Code practices and automate the infrastructure lifecycle.
- Own the CI/CD platform end-to-end, including deployment strategy and engineering standards.
- Define and implement infrastructure and network security standards.
- Build and develop SRE practices, including SLI, SLO, and SLA management.
- Develop enterprise-grade observability across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.
- Design disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
- Identify and eliminate single points of failure.
- Optimize cloud infrastructure costs and resource utilization.
- Own infrastructure budget forecasting and reporting.
- Manage relationships with cloud and technology vendors.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Proven experience as a Lead DevOps, Head of DevOps, Infrastructure Lead, or in a comparable leadership role.
- Professional experience in GameDev — mandatory.
- Experience building and leading a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering team.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes, Linux, cloud infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD, SRE, and observability.
- Experience designing and operating high-load, highly available, fault-tolerant systems.
- Strong expertise in infrastructure security and automation.
- Experience with cloud cost optimization, infrastructure budgeting, and technical vendors.
- Hands-on engineering background with Python or other scripting/programming languages.
- Fluent Russian.
Nice to Have
- Experience with infrastructure for large-scale mobile games.
- Experience supporting products with a multimillion-user audience.
- Multi-cloud expertise.
- Strong FinOps experience.
What We Offer
- A technical leadership role with ownership of the infrastructure direction.
- Opportunity to build and develop the DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering function.
- Work on a mature mobile gaming product with 15M+ users.
- Complex infrastructure challenges across scalability, high availability, SRE, security, and multi-cloud environments.
- Fully remote, full-time work.
- B2B cooperation or employment.
