DevOps Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with clients, product owners, architects, and development teams to understand business and technical requirements and translate them into infrastructure and cloud architecture requirements.
• Analyze existing infrastructure and application architectures to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, technical debt, and opportunities for improvement.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available, and cost-efficient multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Assess the impact of new requirements and architectural changes on infrastructure, capacity, scalability, performance, security, operational complexity, cost, engineering effort, project scope, and timelines.
• Translate architectural requirements into technical initiatives, epics, backlog items, estimates, and dependencies, and contribute to project planning and technical roadmaps.
• Evaluate architectural alternatives and technologies, document trade-offs, and make recommendations aligned with business priorities and project constraints.
• Lead architecture workshops and technical discussions with clients and internal stakeholders, clearly communicating decisions, risks, assumptions, and constraints.
• Define architecture principles, reusable patterns, standards, and non-functional requirements covering availability, scalability, performance, security, observability, disaster recovery, and maintainability.
• Design and establish Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform and other appropriate tools.
• Design CI/CD, container, and Kubernetes architectures across multiple environments and cloud providers.
• Define cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, IAM, security, secrets management, monitoring, logging, and observability strategies.
• Design high-availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions based on business and operational requirements.
• Assess infrastructure capacity and identify opportunities for modernization, automation, performance improvement, and cloud cost optimization.
• Conduct architecture reviews and ensure implemented solutions remain aligned with agreed architecture and requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to DevOps, Infrastructure, Platform, and Development teams and act as a technical escalation point for complex issues.
• Define migration and modernization strategies for workloads moving between on-premises and cloud environments or between cloud providers.
• Ensure compliance with corporate security, governance, and regulatory requirements.

What we expect from you:

• Significant practical experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Architecture, with proven architectural or technical leadership experience.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code and extensive Terraform experience, including reusable modules and IaC standards.
• Experience designing high-availability, disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and resilience strategies.
• Strong Kubernetes and container experience, ideally including EKS, AKS, and GKE .
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, security, IAM, secrets management, encryption, and DevSecOps.
• Experience designing CI/CD architectures using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy, or similar tools.
• Strong Linux/UNIX and Windows knowledge, including practical troubleshooting experience.
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with capacity planning, resource forecasting, cloud cost optimization, and balancing technical solutions against project constraints.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain complex architecture decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and act as an escalation point for complex architectural and infrastructure issues.
• Advanced proficiency in spoken English is mandatory.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Competitive compensation packages.
• Stable employment, based on a full-time employment contract.
• Private health insurance (Medicare Сlinic).
• AYCM sport pass, providing discounts at various sports facilities in Hungary.
• Interesting tasks and diverse opportunities for developing your skills.
• Participation in internal and external thematic events, technical conferences.
• A spacious office in the heart of Budapest (13th district).
• All necessary devices and tools for your work.
• Friendly, motivating atmosphere.
• Active corporate life.

If you feel you’re ready to join the team, apply for this job now! We’re already looking forward to meeting you!