DevOps Junior Engineer

Summary

Russell Tobin is seeking a DevOps Junior Engineer to focus on CI/CD tooling for on-premises and AWS infrastructure. The role involves collaborating with various teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring secure application deployment, and managing DevOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for automated configuration and deployments
• Support infrastructure provisioning and configuration management across environments (dev, QA, staging, production)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to automate repetitive operational tasks
• Help manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI)
• Monitor system performance and assist in troubleshooting deployment issues
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, automation workflows, and deployment processes
• Participate in improving security, scalability, and reliability of systems

Skills

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for automated configuration and deployments
• Support infrastructure provisioning and configuration management across environments (dev, QA, staging, production)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to automate repetitive operational tasks
• Help manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI)
• Monitor system performance and assist in troubleshooting deployment issues
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, automation workflows, and deployment processes
• Participate in improving security, scalability, and reliability of systems
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 1 years in a DevOps, with a track record of managing high -traffic production environments
• Initial level proficiency in AWS and/or Azure
• Basic expertise in Docker and Certified Kubernetes skills
• Basic proficiency in Python, Go, or Ruby for creating custom automation tooling and APIs
• Basic understanding of Linux system administration, kernel tuning, and networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS)
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Knowledge of Docker or containerization
• Familiarity with Terraform or other IaC tools
• Understanding of YAML/JSON configuration formats
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for automated configuration and deployments
• Support infrastructure provisioning and configuration management across environments (dev, QA, staging, production)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to automate repetitive operational tasks
• Help manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI)
• Monitor system performance and assist in troubleshooting deployment issues
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, automation workflows, and deployment processes
• Participate in improving security, scalability, and reliability of systems

Nice to Haves

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 1 years in a DevOps, with a track record of managing high -traffic production environments
• Initial level proficiency in AWS and/or Azure
• Basic expertise in Docker and Certified Kubernetes skills
• Basic proficiency in Python, Go, or Ruby for creating custom automation tooling and APIs
• Basic understanding of Linux system administration, kernel tuning, and networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS)
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Knowledge of Docker or containerization
• Familiarity with Terraform or other IaC tools
• Understanding of YAML/JSON configuration formats
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans)
• Supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity)
• 401(k)-retirement savings
• Life & disability insurance
• An employee assistance program
• Legal support
• Pet insurance
• Employee discounts with preferred vendors