DevOps Lead EMEA (SaaS)

Location: Budapest, Hungary; hybrid work with office attendance 3+ days per week.

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-native, cloud-native, no-code platform for frontline operations and digital transformation in industrial environments.

What you will do

• Lead the EU TechOps team through recruiting, one-on-ones, performance evaluation, career development, and regional on-call coverage.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud and operational infrastructure in partnership with the US lead.
• Monitor system health, performance, availability, and uptime.
• Coordinate incident and infrastructure bottleneck diagnosis, resolution, and post-incident reviews.
• Improve deployment processes and system workflows with Engineering and Product teams.
• Define security and compliance practices, maintain runbooks and escalation paths, and report to senior leadership.

Requirements

• 7+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience, including 1–2+ years as an engineering manager.
• Experience coaching and developing engineers and running team rituals, ideally across regions and time zones.
• Hands-on experience owning production cloud environments at scale using Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS and/or Azure.
• Solid understanding of observability and site reliability practices, such as Prometheus and Grafana, in a fast-growing SaaS environment.
• Experience managing databases and messaging systems at enterprise scale.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Scripting or programming experience in Go, TypeScript, Python, or Bash.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct impact on the product and company culture within an inclusive, diverse, dog-friendly office.
• Private healthcare insurance, company equity, and HU eyeglass benefit.
• Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy.
• Virtual company events, happy hours, team lunches, and office snacks.
• Learning and development benefits.