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POSITION OVERVIEW

We are looking for an experienced and passionate DevOps Team Lead to guide and mentor a team of DevOps engineers supporting our Customer Data Platform (CDP). In this role, you will combine hands-on DevOps work with team leadership responsibilities. You will lead efforts to improve the scalability, reliability, and automation of our CI/CD infrastructure and production environments while driving innovation and best practices across the team.

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems.
• Oversee the design and evolution of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring systems.
• Ensure production systems meet high standards for availability, performance, and security.
• Drive incident management and root cause analysis for critical system issues.
• Take ownership of team planning, prioritization, and execution of DevOps-related projects.
• Promote best practices in infrastructure as code, observability, and automation.
• Provide guidance during off-hours incidents when needed.What you bring
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering, including at least 2 years in a leadership or mentorship capacity.
• Deep hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong proficiency with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like TeamCity, Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.
• Solid experience in system monitoring, logging, and performance tuning.
• Strong Bash scripting skills; additional experience in Python, Java, or Go is a plus.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.) and event-streaming systems (Kafka, Spark).
• A strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Comfortable working from our Budapest office 3 times per week.Bonus Points For
• Previous experience managing data lakes or analytics platforms
• Passion for mentoring and growing engineering talent.
• Experience leading DevOps transformations or scaling DevOps teams.
• A proactive and ownership-driven mindset.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment