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, release preparation, and deployment activities of the CI/CD pipeline.

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

• Set up monitoring checks and alerts.

• Engage in backup and recovery procedures.

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

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

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

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

⛳️ 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.

• Comprehension of CI/CD principles with practical exposure to GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or TeamCity.

• Familiarity with containerization concepts and practical experience with container images and runtime environments.

• Scripting experience with Shell and either Python or PowerShell.

• General understanding of Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools like Terraform and Ansible.

• Knowledge of SDLC processes and DevOps principles.

• Basic understanding of 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 validating outputs and maintaining data security standards.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Proficient in English at least at an Upper-Intermediate level.

🏝️ Benefits

• Ongoing learning support.

• Mentoring opportunities.

• Support for certification growth in cloud or Linux-related certifications.

• Clear career development pathways.

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

• Option for remote work.