Junior DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Shivom Consultancy Ltd is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Junior DevOps Engineer to join their growing technology team. This role offers an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, platform operations, and operational support within secure and large-scale customer environments. The successful candidate will work closely with senior engineers and various teams to support the design, deployment, automation, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud and on-premise platforms.

Qualifications

• Basic understanding of DevOps principles, Agile delivery methodologies, and modern software delivery practices.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Basic understanding of Linux and/or Windows operating systems.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and deployment pipelines.
• Basic scripting or automation capability using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, infrastructure concepts, and system administration principles.
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within team environments.
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, or containerization technologies.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or ELK Stack.
• Awareness of cloud security and operational best practices.
• Understanding of public sector or regulated environments.
• Experience from university projects, labs, internships, placements, apprenticeships, or personal technical projects.
• Degree, apprenticeship, bootcamp qualification, or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrable interest in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Automation, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Previous hands-on technical experience through academic, personal, or commercial projects is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Assist with provisioning, configuration, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Support deployment and management of infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Help maintain secure, resilient, scalable, and highly available environments for development, testing, and production workloads.
• Support networking, storage, compute, and container platform configuration activities.
• Assist with infrastructure upgrades, patching, and environment maintenance.
• Support implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Assist in automating deployment, testing, release, and operational processes.
• Contribute to scripting and automation tasks using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Help identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation and tooling.
• Support source code management and version control processes using Git-based repositories.
• Assist with container-based deployments using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS/OpenShift platforms.
• Support container image management, configuration, and deployment processes.
• Help troubleshoot deployment, orchestration, and environment issues under guidance from senior engineers.
• Assist with maintaining DevOps tooling and platform configurations.
• Monitor infrastructure, applications, and platform health using operational monitoring and alerting tools.
• Support monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack.
• Assist in investigating incidents, troubleshooting technical issues, and performing root cause analysis.
• Provide Level 1 and Level 2 application and infrastructure support.
• Contribute to operational documentation, runbooks, support procedures, and knowledge base articles.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and environment resilience activities.

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