Junior DevOps Engineer

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Automate and optimize service deployments
• Integrate with enterprise authentication services
• Establish and improve system monitoring while maintaining established security protocols
• Architect, build, and maintain on-prem and cloud infrastructure
• Maintain and improve existing infrastructure
• Administer production, staging and development environments
• Manage and aggregate server logs and monitor security and system related incidents
• Monitor and analyze system performance
• Maintain and improve existing build and deployment processes
• Apply configuration management disciplines
• Enforce best practices for security and reliability
• Drive security initiatives
• Work with A&A Teams
• Maintain documentation of designs/configurations
• Manage operational readiness board
• Participate in SAFe and Scrum development teams
• On-call support

Required Skills

• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Experience working with container images and platforms (Kubernetes/Docker/OpenShift)
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
• Understanding of GitLab or other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools
• Understanding of microservice design and architectural pattern best practices
• Knowledge of Python, Bash, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent time management skills

Desired Skills

• Experience in building processes for deploying to a Kubernetes based environment using Gitlab and Helm
• Experience with access management and security groups
• Ability to write and use unit and functional testing
• Experience using Jira and Confluence