DevOps Engineer - Consultant

Employment Type: Contract Location Type: Remote Based In: Hungary (Essential) Day Rate: 120,000 to 160,000 Start Date: ASAP Duration: 3 months

Position Overview

The DevOps Engineer is an essential role within the Platform Engineering team, focused on maintaining the integrity and reliability of software applications. This role plays 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.

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 standardize 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.

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 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 in 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 organizational success.