Sovereign Engineering Platform SRE (DevOps Engineer) (m/f/d)

Location: Košice, Slovakia. Remote working is available only within Slovakia due to European taxation regulations.

Salary: Base salary from €2,100 gross per month, depending on seniority and previous experience; variable compensation and other financial benefits are also provided.

Company

hirify.global provides information and communication technology services and employs more than 3,900 people in the Košice region.

What you will do

• Build and operate Kubernetes environments hosting AI engineering tools, internal model gateways, retrieval components, workflow services, CI/CD runners, and documentation services.
• Implement GitOps and Infrastructure as Code for reproducible provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, platform upgrades, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Manage private registries, package mirrors, secrets, identity integration, network segmentation, storage classes, backups, and controlled connectivity.
• Provide observability for engineering workloads through metrics, logs, traces, resource utilization, service health, cost signals, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with software, security, and architecture teams to support AI-assisted SDLC workflows while preventing uncontrolled data exposure and audit gaps.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or operations roles.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes and Linux, with experience operating production-grade engineering platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Python or shell scripting, CI/CD runners, private registries, and secure configuration management.
• Experience with GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and operational runbooks.
• Good understanding of networking, storage, secrets, access control, monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, and operational hardening in high-security environments.
• Ability to support AI-enabled engineering workloads in sovereignty-driven environments with isolation, controlled data handling, reliability, and auditability requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• More than 25 benefits supporting financial wellbeing, learning and development, health and sport, family, and work-life balance.
• Focus on balancing professional development, private life, and individual lifestyle.
• Variable compensation and additional financial benefits alongside the base salary.
• Support for physical and mental wellbeing through work-life balance initiatives.