DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer - Consultant Required

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Hungary Based (Essential) - Remote Working

Day Rate: 120,000 to 160,000
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 3 months

A DevOps Engineer is an essential role within the Platform Engineering team, focused on maintaining the integrity and reliability of software applications. They play a crucial part in addressing and solving technical issues that arise, ensuring that customers receive prompt and effective solutions to their problems.

DevOps Engineers are diligent communicators who use their technical knowledge to perform analyses, troubleshoot and resolve issues, make recommendations for improvements, and execute necessary maintenance to enhance the user experience and system functionality.

Technologies in use:

AWS Services & Infrastructure (Control Tower, IAM, ECR, etc.)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Containerised Systems (Docker, Kubernetes, Karpenter)

Storage (EBS, S3)

Security & Identity Management (IAM, SSO, VPN, Authentik)

CI/CD & Deployment Automation (Bitbucket, GitLab, ArgoCD)

Monitoring & Logging (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, UpTrends)

Networking (Global Accelerator, TGW, WAF, VPN)

Messaging (Kafka)

Service Mesh (Linkerd)

Databases & Data Stores (RDS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Secrets & Credentials Management (Vault)

Version & Package Management (Artifactory, Nexus)

Code Quality & Security Analysis Tools (Sonar)

Key Responsibilities

Routine Platform Maintenance

Apply security patches to infrastructure and services

Perform regular backups and validate backup integrity

Rotate SSL/TLS certificates and other secrets as required

Monitor platform health and apply basic remediations

Infrastructure Hygiene & Upkeep

Clean up unused or legacy infrastructure components

Maintain and update internal runbooks and technical documentation

CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance

Review and standardise pipeline configurations (GitLab, ArgoCD)

Troubleshoot and resolve basic build/deploy failures

Create reusable pipeline templates or automation scripts

Identify and automate routine tasks using scripting (e.g. Bash, Python)

Investigation and Troubleshooting

Investigate and resolve back-end and infrastructure production issues

Troubleshoot technical issues or questions reported by customers

Key Skills

Experience operating distributed systems at scale

Excellent external and internal communication skills and team collaboration

Working knowledge of databases and SQL

Strong capability with infrastructure with AWS, Kubernetes & Terraform

Good understanding of DNS, CI/CD workflows and infrastructure as code

Observability experience (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)

Development experience with object-oriented programming (e.g., Java)

Diligence, quality-focused, and analytical skills

Proactive in contributing to organisational success