Wizz Air is a leading European low-cost airline. Our mission is to provide affordable and reliable air travel to everyone, everywhere, while minimizing our environmental impact. We are proud to foster a diverse and inclusive team of over 8,000 employees from more than 110 nationalities, who share our values of inclusivity, positivity, dedication, integrity, and sustainability.
As a rapidly expanding airline, we offer exciting career opportunities across a range of functions, from flight operations to engineering, customer experience, finance, and more. We provide extensive training and development opportunities to help our employees grow and succeed in their roles. Joining Wizz Air means joining a team that is passionate about aviation, dedicated to excellence, and committed to making air travel accessible and sustainable for all. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in the aviation industry, we welcome you to explore our job opportunities and become a part of our success story.
Senior Digital Engineering Manager
Based in Budapest
Purpose of the role
The Senior Engineering Manager is the owner of Wizz Air’s EDGE and Perimeter Engineering domain, with primary accountability for DNS, CDN, Bot Protection, and related perimeter services on AWS. The role is critical to ensuring secure, resilient, highperformance global access to Wizz Air’s digital platforms.
This position leads a dedicated EDGE engineering team and is responsible for defining and evolving the technology stack, planning and executing engineering roadmaps, and driving the implementation of changes across DNS, CDN, and securityfocused perimeter services. The role requires close collaboration with cloud providers, security and network vendors, and internal IT, Security, Architecture, and Digital Product teams to ensure alignment with business growth, availability, performance, and security objectives.
This position reports to the Head of Engineering and Architecture within the Digital organization.
Responsibilities
Strategic
- Ensure technology decisions continue to support a rapid growth trajectory
- Establish governance and frameworks for measuring current status and roadmap progress
- Establish and implement engineering principles and standards across the various teams
Project
- Coordinate work for the current flagship digital project of Wizz Air where the main goal is to migrate the current website to a cloud native architecture and meanwhile transform the organization
- Manage current engineering effort for the website and the apps
- Coordinate regular training sessions for business users
- Perform assessments and benchspaning across the the engineering teams
General
- Managing the internal engineering managers
- Direct management of 50+ external resources
- Manage budget, time, and developer resources
- Manage multiple vendors and participate in IT tenders
- Responsible for the yearly and quarterly budgeting process
- Form and manage engineering strategy
- Actively seeks opportunities, embracing the ideation process to leverage the possibilities
Experience
- 5-7+ years overall IT / engineering experience, with 5+ years in cloud or network‑centric engineering roles
- 4+ years in engineering leadership or people management roles
- Proven experience leading DNS, CDN, WAF, Bot Protection, or EDGE platforms at scale
- Experience working with global, highly available, internet‑facing systems
Hard skills
- Strong hands‑on and architectural knowledge of DNS technologies (authoritative DNS, traffic steering, health checks)
- Deep understanding of CDN concepts: caching strategies, origin protection, performance optimization, TLS, and global traffic routing
- Experience with Bot Protection, WAF, and DDoS mitigation concepts and tooling
- Strong expertise in AWS EDGE and networking services, including Route 53, CloudFront, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, and related services
- Understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS, Anycast, latency‑based routing
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation
- Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and incident response in distributed systems
Education
Bachelors or Masters degree
Language
Fluent in English (both written and spoken)
Skills and competencies
- 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
When applying, please only provide valid information regarding your educational background and certificates, as the original documents will be requested during the hiring process.
We look forward to meeting you and learning more about your skills and experience. Join the Wizz Air team and discover the world of opportunities.
