Staff DevOps Engineer (Infrastructure)

Location: Slovakia, with the option to work from home or from hirify.global offices in Bratislava, Brno, or Prague; full-time.

Base salary: €48,800–€61,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-powered agentic personalization platform for customer journeys, autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, serving more than 1,400 global brands.

What you will do

• Design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions, and robust production environments with engineering teams.
• Own infrastructure initiative designs and specifications, break them into executable tasks, and lead projects spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Automate tools and infrastructure to reduce manual work.
• Operate and improve Kubernetes, databases, and Google Cloud infrastructure with attention to security, high availability, cost, and scalability.
• Monitor applications, configure alerting, validate application performance and availability, and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Support developers, review design proposals, and develop core infrastructure components such as logging or authorization when needed.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, including understanding cluster internals and operating 24x7 production environments.
• Experience with public cloud, preferably GCP, or AWS/Azure; understanding of cloud risks and benefits, infrastructure as code, and the trade-offs between managed and self-hosted solutions.
• Ability to read and understand Python or Go code, review AI-generated Python code for correctness, security, and suitability, and develop custom tooling when needed.
• Ability to turn loosely defined problems into designs and specifications, write design proposals, assess trade-offs, and review others' designs.
• Experience leading projects across multiple teams from scoping and planning through delivery without direct reporting authority.
• Ability to independently deliver maintenance and project work while understanding, verifying, and explaining every shipped change.
• Active interest in Kubernetes and related technologies, including ongoing learning and participation in DevOps-related conferences.
• Hands-on experience configuring Kubernetes security contexts, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host paths, pod disruption budgets, priority classes, and node taints; optimizing resource requests and limits, HPAs, or VPAs; and upgrading clusters without interrupting live applications.
• Experience writing Terraform modules with multiple interconnected resources; setting up monitoring and alerting; and working with Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, and Docker.
• Experience onboarding and training new team members.

Nice to have

• On-duty experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Virtual-first work with flexible working hours and hubs across three continents.
• Freedom, trust, responsibility, and a DevOps culture in which teams release, operate, and monitor their own applications.
• Five paid days off for volunteering and company events.
• People Development Program, communication coaching, leadership development, and a $1,500 annual professional education budget.
• Employee Assistance Program, Calm subscription, quarterly additional days off, sports, yoga, meditation, and extended parental leave of up to 26 calendar weeks for primary caregivers.
• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options depending on role, seniority, and location; company performance bonus and employee referral bonus up to $3,000.