Junior DevOps Engineer

Job summary

The Junior DevOps Engineer supports business applications and helps deliver software safely and consistently through application support, incident response, release management, monitoring, and automation. The role assists with deployments using Azure DevOps, maintains operational documentation, and builds experience with cloud services, APIs, servers, job scheduling, Infrastructure as Code, and platform maintenance while collaborating with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams.

Benefits

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience preferred.
• One to three years of relevant experience preferred; technical support, internships, academic work, projects, and other hands-on experience may be considered.
• Foundational knowledge of information technology, software development, systems, networking, databases, APIs, or cloud concepts.
• Ability to investigate problems methodically, document findings, and recognize when to seek assistance or escalate.
• Clear communication, attention to detail, dependable follow-through, and ability to learn and collaborate.
• Experience with ticketing systems, monitoring tools, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Azure DevOps, deployments, upgrades, migrations, scripting, automation, or cloud technology is helpful.
• Familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor support tickets and system alerts, troubleshoot issues, document findings, and coordinate next steps.
• Support applications and contribute to incident triage, root-cause analysis, and follow-up work.
• Assist with software releases and deployments using Azure DevOps and established release practices.
• Verify approvals, testing, implementation steps, and documentation before assigned deployments.
• Monitor deployments, communicate status, and address or escalate unexpected results.
• Use monitoring and alerting tools to support reliable application performance.
• Write or update scripts and automations to reduce repetitive work and improve consistency.
• Support cloud, platform, infrastructure, upgrade, migration, and maintenance activities with guidance.
• Maintain runbooks, knowledge articles, ticket notes, and deployment records.
• Follow security, change-management, confidentiality, and information-handling requirements.

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