Cloud & Platform Engineer (DevOps)

  • Full-time
  • Tag: DEVOPS

Company Description

Hiflylabs is a dynamic team of 250+ data and tech professionals based in Budapest, delivering cutting-edge solutions in data engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, and application development. With over a decade of expertise, we empower businesses worldwide with tailored, hands-on strategies for Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and Data Analytics.

Our strength lives in our people. Through our mentoring system, we cultivate professional growth and innovation.

Let’s start a conversation now and get a head start later in the recruitment process!

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Job Description

What Will You Do?

  • Infrastructure & Tooling: Design, build, and deploy robust development tools and scalable infrastructure to support the engineering lifecycle.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a bridge between stakeholders and the engineering team, translating business requirements into technical specifications.
  • Automation & Optimization: Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and optimize CI/CD pipelines for faster, more reliable releases.
  • Quality Assurance: Review and test code authored by team members, providing detailed analysis and ensuring high-quality deployments.
  • Security & Compliance: Proactively safeguard systems against cybersecurity threats and maintain a "security-first" approach to infrastructure.
  • Incident Management: Troubleshoot complex technical issues, develop long-term "fixes," and manage software updates and patches.
  • Process Governance: Partner with developers to ensure all software engineering follows established best practices and architectural standards.
  • Microservices Integration: Lead the configuration and seamless integration of microservices within a containerized environment.

Qualifications

What You Need to Apply:

  • Professional Experience: Minimum 3 years of experience in a DevOps Engineer role or a closely related Software Engineering position.
  • Development Background: Solid foundational skills in Frontend or Backend development; you understand the code as well as the infrastructure.
  • Infrastructure & Automation: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), version control (Git), and configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, or Ansible).
  • Containerization: Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes within a Microservices architecture.
  • Cloud Proficiency: Working knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Data Management: Strong understanding of database technologies, with a preference for NoSQL environments (e.g., BigQuery, MongoDB, Redis).
  • Methodology: Familiarity with Agile/Scrum frameworks and workflows.

Soft Skills & Mindset

  • Analytical Thinker: Proficient in technical analysis and troubleshooting with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
  • Operational Excellence: High attention to detail regarding technical processes and system reliability.
  • Collaborative Spirit: A team player with a positive, customer-focused attitude and excellent communication skills.
  • Growth Mindset: Naturally curious and eager to learn new technologies and improve existing processes.
  • Language: Full professional proficiency in English (written and verbal).


We value candidates who have experience with, or an interest in:

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Helm.
  • Observability & Messaging: Grafana, ELK Stack, Kafka.
  • Web Servers: NGINX, Apache, Tomcat.
  • Legacy & Specialized Systems: Linux/Unix/AIX virtualization and ITIL V3 frameworks.
  • Documentation: Experience creating clear technical documentation and UML diagrams.

Additional Information

Why us?

  • Diverse projects: In each assignment there is always something new either on the technical or on the business side that helps you grow.
  • Cutting edge technology: You will work with many of the most up-to-date technologies and tools.
  • Strong and motivating team: We stress the importance of working together in tight-knit, cohesive teams in which members help each other to reach the common goal.
  • Work-life balance: We help you to feel good individually as well, and coordinate work so it aligns with your leisure activities.
  • Professional development: There are team gatherings on a regular schedule where colleagues can share their knowledge, and have deep technical discussions.
  • Focus on company culture: In addition to our business and professional achievements we are proud of the social bonding in the company, which is based on mutual respect and helping one another.
  • Personal mentoring: You will have your own mentor (just like everybody at Hiflylabs) who you can turn to with professional issues as well as with personal ones.
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