Manager DevOps Engineering (Observability & Developer Experience)

Cision is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer specializing in Observability and Developer Experience to oversee monitoring, logging, CI/CD, and automation initiatives, ensuring system reliability and empowering developers.

Location: Bulgaria, Hungary

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to a team of DevOps/SRE engineers focused on Observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) and Developer Experience (CI/CD pipelines, internal developer tools).
• Help define the roadmap and vision for observability and developer productivity, aligning with business and engineering needs.
• Design, implement, and operate monitoring and logging infrastructure, ensuring robust visibility into system health and performance.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks that enable fast, safe deployments and improve developer workflows.
• Collaborate with other engineering and product teams to drive cross-functional initiatives and ensure reliability and efficiency are embedded into our services.
• Establish and share best practices for infrastructure management, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Contribute to defining and implementing AI tooling and standards across the company, ensuring developers have access to scalable and secure AI platforms.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, including some experience leading or mentoring other engineers.
• Hands-on expertise in observability practices and tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) and familiarity with SRE principles.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes), and experience building scalable systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across teams (development, QA, product).
• Passion for automation, reliability, and developer efficiency, with a mindset of continuous improvement.