Junior DevOps Engineer

About the role

A well-established digital payments company, which is growing its platform and infrastructure, is looking for a Junior DevOps Engineer. The role supports cloud operations, automation initiatives and the development of scalable, secure and highly available technology platforms within a collaborative engineering team.

Key responsibilities

• CI/CD and automation: build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test and deployment, integrate automated testing into development workflows and improve delivery speed and reliability.
• Infrastructure as Code: develop and maintain IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible, and automate provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure.
• Cloud infrastructure: deploy and manage cloud environments ensuring scalability, availability and reliability.
• Containerization and orchestration: build and maintain containerized applications with Docker, and deploy and manage workloads on Kubernetes or other orchestration platforms.
• Monitoring and logging: implement monitoring, logging and alerting, and analyse performance data to identify and resolve issues.
• Collaboration and support: work with development teams to streamline deployments and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.
• Security and compliance: apply security best practices, manage secrets and access control, and use vulnerability scanning tools.
• Continuous improvement: identify opportunities to automate manual tasks and adopt modern DevOps tools and practices.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience with DevOps tools and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with GitOps, IaC and containerized applications.
• Strong understanding of Linux and shell scripting.

Required skills

• Familiarity with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of Docker and containerization principles.
• Exposure to Kubernetes or container orchestration concepts.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Proficiency with Git and version control workflows.
• Understanding of DevOps automation practices.