Digital Engineering Manager - Cloud Infra & DevOps

Wizz Air

Budapest, Hungary

Purpose of the role:

Are you passionate about managing DevOps in cloud environment and looking for an opportunity to lead and shape the future of digital travel? As our Digital Engineering Manager (Cloud Infra & DevOps), you will play a pivotal role in Wizz Air’s Digital organization. You will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise in managing the cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. This role is essential for ensuring a robust, scalable and efficient technology ecosystem, ultimately contributing to the organization’s success in delivering innovative and reliable services. You will also closely collaborate with the software architecture team to ensure Wizz Air’s software products follow industry standards, are well-documented, and leveraged effectively. This position reports to the Head of Engineering and Architecture within the Digital organization.

Key responsibilities:

Strategic

Develop and execute strategies to optimize the organization's cloud infrastructure, ensuring it meets performance, security, and cost-efficiency objectives;
Implement measures to enhance the reliability and availability of systems and applications through effective monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery planning;
Implement and enforce engineering principles and standards to achieve operational excellence.

Project

Drive initiatives to automate manual processes, reducing manual intervention, minimizing errors, and accelerating deployment cycles;
Implement and promote Infrastructure as Code principles to manage and provision infrastructure resources efficiently and consistently;
Identify and mitigate potential risks related to cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes to maintain a secure and compliant technology environment;
Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing updates, insights, and recommendations to support informed decision-making.

General

Direct management of 10+ external resources;
Manage budget, time, and team resources;
Manage multiple vendors and participate in IT tenders;
Responsible for the yearly and quarterly budgeting process;
Form and manage engineering strategy;
Actively seek opportunities, embracing the ideation process to leverage the possibilities.

Requirements:

Minimum 7 years of experience in software development, with significant experience in cloud infrastructure operations and DevOps;
At least 3 years in a leadership/manager role;
Experience with public cloud providers: AWS (preferred), Azure, GCP;
University or college degree;
Experience in managing DevOps teams, preferably including vendor management;
Strong interpersonal skills, ability to cooperate with a variety of stakeholders, team player personality;
Dedication, positivity, integrity, and inclusivity;
Good project management skills;
Strong sense of ownership and accountability for custom build software solutions;
Ability to live and work in Budapest, Hungary;
Fluent spoken and written English.