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.