Sovereign Engineering Platform SRE - T Cloud Public (Kubernetes)

Location: Budapest, Szeged, Pécs, or Debrecen, Hungary; remote working is available only from within Hungary due to European taxation regulations.

Company

hirify.global is a Deutsche Telekom Group subsidiary providing IT and telecommunications services to large corporate customers across Germany and other European countries.

What you will do

• Build and operate Kubernetes environments for AI engineering tools, model gateways, retrieval components, workflow services, CI/CD runners, and documentation platforms.
• Implement GitOps and Infrastructure as Code for reproducible provisioning, policy enforcement, platform upgrades, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Manage private registries, package mirrors, secrets, identity integration, network segmentation, storage, backups, and controlled connectivity.
• Provide observability across metrics, logs, traces, GPU and CPU utilization, service health, cost signals, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with software, security, and architecture teams to support AI-enabled SDLC workflows without uncontrolled data exposure or audit gaps.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or operations.
• Strong Kubernetes and Linux expertise, 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.
• Knowledge of networking, storage, secrets, access control, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and operational hardening.
• Experience supporting AI-enabled engineering workloads in isolated, sovereignty-sensitive, and high-security environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work is available within Hungary.
• Work across software, security, and architecture functions on AI-enabled engineering platforms.
• Operate infrastructure using Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, security, and governance tooling.
• Support secure and auditable operations for on-premise and dedicated landing-zone environments.