Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

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 with that comes an increasing urgency to mature our security posture. Compliance readiness, and proactive risk management are becoming equally critical — this role will be a key driver of those efforts alongside infrastructure ownership. This could be a unique opportunity to have a big impact in owning security initiatives and establishing a strong security baseline at Zocks.

Key challenges you will work on every day::
• Owning the full cloud infrastructure lifecycle across multi-region environments

• Owning and hardening the security perimeter across cloud and network boundaries

• Triaging and remediating findings from penetration tests and vulnerability scans in collaboration with external security partners

• Creating and maintaining our delivery pipeline from developer machines to production, including automated security checkpoints, secrets scanning, and dependency auditing.

• Supporting compliance initiatives (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) through infrastructure controls, audit logging, and evidence collection

• Optimizing network topology for the best possible connectivity, latency and throughput for end users

What you need::
• 6+ years relevant experience (DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering)

• Strong AWS experience (EC2, VPC, networking, RDS, IAM)

• Solid Linux systems engineering knowledge

• Production-grade Kubernetes experience

• Experience operating multi-cluster container environments

• Daily hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tooling

• Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Go, or Bash)

• Good understanding of cloud networking (VPN, ingress/egress, load balancing, firewalling)

• CI/CD pipeline experience

• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling

• Strong troubleshooting and incident handling skills

• Fluent English and Hungarian language knowledge

Bonus points for::
• Exposure to Azure or GCP

• Understanding of immutable infrastructure concepts

• Experience with zero-trust networking

• Familiarity with runtime security tooling (Falco, Wiz, Crowdstrike)

• Experience with Vault or AWS Secrets Manager

• PKI / certificate lifecycle management knowledge

• Exposure to compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, CIS Benchmarks)

• SRE or platform engineering background

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.