The Role
The Senior DevOps Engineer will develop and manage cloud infrastructure, optimize network topology, and maintain the delivery pipeline to enhance scalability and security.
Summary Generated by Built In
Company Overview:
We're Zocks, a venture capital-backed AI startup changing the world of financial services, and other industries that value security and privacy. Our founding team built their careers working on real-time communication products, building enterprise platforms, and crafting tools for some of the most security-conscious industries. With experience gained from industry leaders like Twilio, IBM, Microsoft, and Hearsay Systems, we're using AI to bridge human conversations with enterprise systems, starting with financial services.
Our focus, although simple, is powerful: reinventing business operations and transforming the areas that often get bogged down by slow, inefficient processes. Our innovative platform allows people to communicate naturally, while we capture the information they need, so they can avoid data entry, streamline their operations, and spend more time on what matters most: their clients.
Location: Budapest, XI. (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)
Why we're hiring for this role: We’re rapidly expanding and in need of a Senior DevOps Engineer to fully develop and manage our cloud infrastructure capabilities. We're looking for someone who can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to elevate our cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency to support our growing needs.
Key challenges you will work on every day:
- Building and managing an infrastructure with a heavy emphasis on being multi region
- Optimizing network topology for the best possible connectivity, latency and throughput for end users
- Creating and maintaining our delivery pipeline from the developer machines to production
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation (shared equally in a team of 4-6) to support production systems. We focus on sustainable operations, low alert noise, and continuous reliability improvements.
Most of this applies to you:
- Deep understanding of AWS (EC2, Networking, RDS), ideally also some familiarity with Azure and GCP
- Expert understanding of Linux
- Solid scripting skills in one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Java
- Solid knowledge of private and public networking (VPN, ISPs, Firewalls)
- Proficiency in managing multi cluster container environments, preferably with Kubernetes
- Experience in building monitoring with valuable insights for operations, development and product
- Experience in building software delivery pipelines from PR to Deployment
- Preference for a solid understanding of immutable infrastructures and IaC tooling (Terraform)
- Anything you build can run in any environment from dev machines to public cloud and private data centers
Requirements:
- 5+ years relevant experience (DevOps/Cloud Engineering)
- Strong English and Hungarian communication skills
- Experience working in complex technical organization across global offices/locations in an Agile environment
- Experience working with startups and AI technologies is an advantage
What we offer on top of our competitive base salary:
-Premium Health Insurance
-SZÉP-card
-L&D contribution
-AYCM package
-Employee equity program
-Extra PTO
-Home office support
-Your lunch is on us when you are in the office
-Fully stacked office snacks
Location: Budapest, XI. (On-site Monday to Thursday, Remote on Fridays)
We are an equal opportunity employer and never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. At Zocks, we value diversity and believe that it enhances our creativity, innovation, and overall success. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Skills Required
- 5+ years relevant experience in DevOps/Cloud Engineering
- Strong English and Hungarian communication skills
- Experience working in complex technical organizations across global offices in an Agile environment
- Experience with startups and AI technologies
Zocks Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zocks and has not been reviewed or approved by Zocks.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for employee medical with 99% employer-paid dental and vision, plus an FSA with a company match. These contributions signal robust plan generosity for U.S. employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is outlined as 12 weeks fully paid for birthing parents and 6 weeks fully paid for non-birthing parents. Policies are clearly defined in company materials and postings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO, paid sick time, and 11 paid U.S. holidays. Together, these elements present a broad time-off framework.
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The Company
What We Do
Zocks is the #1 AI assistant for financial advisors. We help advisors automate their operational work and grow their business. 5,000+ firms use Zocks to turn client conversations into completed work. We're a venture-backed team, building something that changes how financial advisors serve their clients every day. Every role here is an opportunity to shape the product, the company, and the way an entire industry works. We hire sharp, curious, and kind people who want to do meaningful work and build something from the ground up, together.
