Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer – Remote, High-Load Kubernetes

Playson; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Quarterly Bonuses

Unlimited Paid Vacation

Unlimited Paid Sick Leave

Flexible Schedule

Remote Work

Medical Insurance

Financial Support for Life Events

Professional Development

International exposure

B2B contracts

Job summary

Playson in the United States is seeking a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer to own reliability and performance for a high-traffic, microservices-based platform. You’ll operate at scale, handle incidents, on-call rotations, and drive automation across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

Join a lean Platform Tribe and partner with engineering to minimize user impact during deployments, improve observability, and introduce new tools for scalability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Kubernetes in high-load environments.
• GitOps experience with FluxCD or ArgoCD.
• Incident response and postmortems in production.
• AWS, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD expertise.
• Observability with Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana and ELK/CloudWatch.
• Networking fundamentals and scripting (Python/Go/Node).

Responsibilities

• Own system reliability by monitoring health and responding to incidents in real time.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations for production stability.
• Investigate incidents, perform RCAs, and implement long-term fixes.
• Improve monitoring and observability across Kubernetes (EKS).
• Deploy and manage infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, Flux/ArgoCD.
• Automate and improve resilience to reduce manual work.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and IaC practices.
• Collaborate with engineering to minimize user impact during deployments.
• Introduce new tools to boost scalability and performance.
• Handle environment-specific requests for day-to-day platform ops.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

Observability

Scripting

Git

Incident response

On-call

Networking

PagerDuty

Tools

FluxCD

ArgoCD

Terraform (IaC)

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Playson in the United States is seeking a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer to own reliability and performance for a high-traffic, microservices-based platform. You’ll operate at scale, handle incidents, on-call rotations, and drive automation across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

Join a lean Platform Tribe and partner with engineering to minimize user impact during deployments, improve observability, and introduce new tools for scalability.