Secure Build, Release & Observability Engineer (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, negotiable based on seniority and experience, plus variable compensation and other financial benefits.

Company

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

What you will do

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for repository intake, builds, container image creation, artifact promotion, deployments, and release evidence.
• Implement secure release controls covering private registries, package sources, signing, SBOM generation, vulnerability scanning, dependency provenance, and approval workflows.
• Build observability for build systems, workflow services, repositories, test environments, model endpoints, and platform components using logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards.
• Troubleshoot build failures, flaky pipelines, missing dependencies, environment drift, performance bottlenecks, and handover-readiness gaps.
• Collaborate with software, SRE, testing, and security teams on runbooks, operational KPIs, risk indicators, and audit-ready release evidence.
• Support AI-assisted code validation, log analysis, documentation generation, and workflow execution services.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, release engineering, platform operations, infrastructure automation, or secure build engineering.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems, Kubernetes-based delivery, container builds, private registries, artifact management, and release automation.
• Practical knowledge of observability, incident response, operational dashboards, runbooks, SLA/SLO concepts, and troubleshooting distributed engineering environments.
• Understanding of software supply-chain security, SBOMs, image scanning, secrets handling, dependency provenance, and audit-ready release evidence.
• Ability to work in confidentiality-sensitive programs requiring reproducibility, traceability, controlled access, and structured collaboration.
• English is required for the role.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a focus on work-life balance and employee well-being.
• More than 25 benefits covering financial support, learning and development, health and sport, family, and work-life balance.
• Opportunities for professional growth and flexible reconciliation of work and personal life.
• Variable compensation and additional financial benefits alongside the base salary.