Balázs Pásztor · DevOps & test infrastructure engineer

Experience

Where I have worked

Almost ten years in infrastructure operations, release engineering, test automation and DevOps, across enterprise software, manufacturing and aviation. My work covers CI/CD pipelines with testing and security checks built in, test infrastructure that gives developers fast, trustworthy feedback, infrastructure as code, and the monitoring that lets a team release with confidence. I like digging into a problem until I understand why it happens. I’m comfortable working on my own, but a good team matters a lot to me, where asking questions is normal and everyone learns from each other.

Work

  1. Software Quality Engineer – Test Infrastructure

    Swiss Aviation Software

    Nov 2025 – presentBasel, Switzerland

    • Built self-service debug environments on Kubernetes, so engineers can reproduce failed nightly test runs on demand.
    • Extended pipelines with automated smoke tests and security checks, and optimised them so developers get results in about 15-20 minutes.
    • Keep test environments and automated runs healthy, troubleshooting across infrastructure, platform, framework and application layers.

  2. System Engineer

    Blum Group

    Aug 2024 – Sep 2025Höchst, Austria

    • Built and automated Azure infrastructure as code with Bicep, PowerShell and Azure DevOps pipelines.
    • Designed and ran hybrid networking, DNS and access control across on-premises and Azure, and supported Windows Server migrations through to production cutover.

  3. DevOps Engineer

    SAP Labs

    Apr 2022 – Jul 2024Budapest, Hungary

    • Owned the environments from development to production for a microservices-based product integration on SAP BTP.
    • Maintained delivery pipelines for 16 microservices with testing, code quality, SAST and dependency scanning gates.
    • Coordinated biweekly releases and took part in on-call, investigating production issues through logs and database troubleshooting.

  4. Test Automation Engineer

    Supercharge

    Sep 2020 – Mar 2022Budapest, Hungary

    • Built TypeScript end-to-end test automation for a SaaS platform with web and React Native mobile clients.
    • Shaped test coverage across client projects based on product risk, and wired it into GitLab CI for fast feedback.

  5. System Engineer

    evosoft

    Mar 2017 – Aug 2020Budapest, Hungary

    • Operated Linux and Windows server infrastructure on VMware, along with networking, identity services and monitoring.
    • Helped migrate the company domain into the Siemens corporate domain across multiple sites.

Education

  1. DevOps with Kubernetes

    University of Helsinki, MOOC.fi

    In progressOnline

    Kubernetes in depth on Google Cloud: GitOps, service meshes, autoscaling, monitoring and logging.

  2. BSc in Business Information Technology

    University of Miskolc

    Graduation year: 2020Miskolc, Hungary

Skills

Platform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • SAP BTP
  • Linux
  • Windows Server
  • VMware
CI/CD & GitOps
  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure DevOps
  • Argo CD
  • Git
Infrastructure as code
  • Terraform
  • Bicep
  • Ansible
Networking & identity
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • VLANs
  • Firewalls
  • RBAC
  • Active Directory
  • LDAP
Observability
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • ELK
  • Zabbix
Testing & quality
  • SonarQube
  • Playwright
  • WebdriverIO
  • Appium
  • Postman
  • SAST
  • Dependency scanning
Programming
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • SQL
ML & MLOps
  • MLflow
  • LightGBM

Languages

Hungarian
  • native
English
  • advanced
German
  • intermediate
Danish
  • basic