DevOps Engineer

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.

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What Will You Do?

• Infrastructure & Tooling: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of robust development tools and scalable infrastructure that 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: contribute to troubleshooting technical issues, developing 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: Support the configuration and seamless integration of microservices in a containerized environment.

What You Need to Apply:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a DevOps Engineer role or a closely related Software Engineering position.
• Basic understanding of Frontend or Backend development; you understand the code as well as the infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins
• At least basic Infrastructure as Code (IaC) knowledge
• Containerization: Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably Azure)
• Good understanding of database technologies, with a preference for NoSQL environments 
• 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
• Experience with configuration management tools (such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible).
• Observability & Messaging: Grafana, ELK, Kafka
• Web Servers: NGINX, Apache, Tomcat.
• NoSQL: BigQuery, MongoDB, Redis

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.