Junior DevOps Engineer – DevOps Team

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Establish, configure, test, and uphold infrastructure across development, staging, testing, and production environments.

• Contribute to the implementation of Infrastructure as Code by adhering to established modules, conventions, and review processes.

• Assist in the configuration, maintenance, preparation for releases, and deployment activities of the CI/CD pipeline.

• Investigate incidents by gathering logs and monitoring evidence, conducting initial triage, and documenting solutions.

• Set up monitoring checks and alerts.

• Engage in backup and recovery procedures.

• Adhere to security best practices, including the management of least-privilege access and secure handling of secrets.

• Keep infrastructure documentation, deployment instructions, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks up to date.

• Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, security experts, and operations teams.

• Continuously enhance technical skills through mentoring, certifications, and participation in projects.

• Contribute to international projects as a member of Sigma Software's DevOps team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience with at least one public cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Strong understanding of Linux administration and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, services, packages, and system metrics.

• Familiarity with CI/CD principles and practical experience using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or TeamCity.

• Understanding of containerization concepts along with practical experience with container images and runtime environments.

• Scripting proficiency in Shell and either Python or PowerShell.

• General knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

• Awareness of SDLC processes and DevOps principles.

• Basic familiarity with databases, monitoring, logging, backup, storage, and security concepts.

• Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts, TLS, and secure secrets management.

• Experience using AI assistants responsibly while verifying outputs and upholding data security standards.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• At least an Upper-Intermediate level of English proficiency.

• Experience with Kubernetes or other orchestration platforms (a plus).

• Hands-on experience with Terraform or Ansible in production settings (a plus).

• Familiarity with centralized logging and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, or Datadog (a plus).

• Exposure to GitOps practices (a plus).

• Knowledge of AI/LLM services or vector databases in infrastructure-related contexts (a plus).

• Relevant cloud or Linux-related certifications (a plus).

• A strong desire to learn and evolve within a professional DevOps environment.

• A proactive and ownership-driven mindset.

• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

• Attention to detail and a structured approach to operational tasks.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Ongoing support for continuous learning.

• Mentorship opportunities.

• Assistance with certification growth and support for cloud or Linux-related certifications.

• Clear career development pathways.

• Access to mentorship from Senior and Principal-level professionals.