Digital Engineering Manager, Wizz Air

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, reduce manual intervention, minimize errors, and accelerate 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 & Skills:

• 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, and 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, and team player personality.
• Dedication, positivity, integrity, and inclusivity.
• Good project management skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for custom-built software solutions.
• Ability to live and work in Budapest, Hungary.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.