Senior DevOps Engineer

LightFury Games

Senior DevOps Engineer

6-10

India

Full-Time

Role Overview We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead and scale our infrastructure and DevOps practices. This role is a blend of hands-on technical contribution (IC) and strategic leadership , requiring deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure , automation, and system reliability.

The ideal candidate will have experience in high-performance, real-time environments , preferably within the gaming industry , and will play a critical role in building and maintaining systems that power engaging, large-scale gaming experiences.

Key Responsibilities Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS .

Architect and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable releases.

Act as a hands-on contributor , actively writing infrastructure-as-code, automating workflows, and troubleshooting production issues.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps and engineering teams, setting best practices and standards.

Collaborate closely with game engineers, backend teams, and product stakeholders to support real-time, low-latency systems .

Drive observability, monitoring, and incident response strategies to ensure high uptime and performance.

Optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency .

Establish and enforce security best practices , compliance, and governance across cloud environments.

Lead initiatives around containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.

Required Skills & Qualifications 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, IAM, VPC, etc.).

Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).

Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).

Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

Experience with monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).

Solid scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, or Go).

Experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems .

Preferred Qualifications Prior experience in the gaming industry or real-time, high-traffic consumer applications.

Experience supporting multiplayer or live-service architectures .

Familiarity with scaling systems for millions of users .

Exposure to edge computing/CDN optimization (CloudFront, Fastly, etc.).

Strong understanding of low-latency system design .

Leadership Expectations Act as a technical leader and decision-maker for DevOps strategy.

Balance hands-on IC work (~70-80%) with team leadership and mentorship (~30-20%) .

Influence cross-functional teams and drive engineering excellence .

Lead by example in ownership, reliability, and operational excellence .

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