Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Cloud Observability & FinOps Lead

Location: Applicants must currently reside in Hungary or Poland.

Company

hirify.global AB operates in a large-scale, distributed technology environment.

What you will do

• Design and operate end-to-end observability across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and business services.
• Build unified AWS and GCP cost dashboards, introduce FinOps controls, and track measurable savings.
• Lead production incident management, root cause analysis, reliability governance, and remediation planning.
• Optimize Kubernetes platforms across Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine, including scheduling, scaling, networking, and resource utilization.
• Implement SLI, SLO, SLA, error-budget, canary deployment, gradual rollout, and automated rollback practices.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, platform, and business teams on complex initiatives from design through operation.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Platform Engineering, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership role such as Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Technical Lead.
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems in production and independently delivering measurable technical improvements.
• Strong hands-on expertise in both AWS and GCP, multi-cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK, and production Kubernetes management.
• Experience designing and implementing observability solutions from scratch, including metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, and reliability metrics.
• Strong knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Understanding of SRE principles, including SLI, SLO, SLA, error budgets, production incident management, RCA, and reliability improvement.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, rollback strategies, and programming in Python, Go, or Java.
• Excellent English communication, technical leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and ownership skills.
• Applicants must currently reside in Hungary or Poland and be comfortable collaborating in an English-speaking technical environment.

Nice to have

• FinOps implementation with measurable cloud cost savings and strong knowledge of Google SRE practices.
• Chaos Engineering, resilience testing, eBPF, and advanced performance profiling experience.
• Multi-cloud disaster recovery design using Active-Active or Active-Passive architectures.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or observability projects.
• Experience improving reliability and operational efficiency in large-scale cloud-native environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on technical ownership is required rather than purely architectural or advisory work.
• Work involves collaboration with international engineering teams in an English-speaking environment.
• The role focuses on measurable improvements in reliability, operational efficiency, and cloud cost management.