Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS)

Location: Budapest or Warsaw

Company

hirify.global is an independent technology consulting firm providing technology guidance and solutions to businesses through international teams and major projects.

What you will do

• Define technical direction, standards, and architecture decisions for cloud platform operations across AWS, Azure, OCI, and IBM Cloud.
• Lead provisioning, management, optimization, and lifecycle activities for cloud infrastructure, native services, IaaS, and PaaS.
• Develop infrastructure automation with Terraform, command-line tooling, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Implement observability and SRE practices to improve reliability, recoverability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead complex cloud incident response, resolve L3/L4 tickets, perform root cause analysis, and complete corrective actions.
• Define secure cloud networking and drive FinOps activities, landing zones, policy-as-code controls, service catalogs, documentation, support models, and CMDB records.

Requirements

• Proven experience in enterprise cloud platform operations, technical leadership, and architecture-level decision-making.
• Advanced hands-on expertise in at least two major cloud platforms; AWS expertise is mandatory.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise cloud governance, secure provisioning, tenancy hygiene, identity, networking, and security baselines.
• Proficiency in IaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes, container platform operations, Terraform, scripting, command-line tooling, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Practical experience with observability, SRE, ITSM automation, incident management, root cause analysis, resilient architecture, backup, disaster recovery, migration, and service continuity patterns.
• Knowledge of cloud cost management, FinOps principles, cloud landing zones, policy-as-code guardrails, service catalog blueprints, and controlled self-service models.
• Fluent English, plus Hungarian and Polish.
• Strong technical documentation, stakeholder communication, vendor facilitation, mentoring, and technical coaching skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix, multinational, geographically distributed environment and remain structured during major incidents and on-call support.

Nice to have

• Relevant degree, equivalent practical experience, or role-aligned professional certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• International community representing more than 110 nationalities.
• Internal Academy with more than 250 training modules.
• Trust-focused environment with opportunities for career progression.
• Regular internal events, including afterworks and team buildings.

Hiring process

• Brief virtual or phone call.
• Approximately three interviews, varying by seniority.
• Potential case study, technical assessment, role play, or problem-solving exercise depending on the position.