Junior DevOps Engineer || 0- 2 Years Exp

Experience Required: 0 - 2 years
CTC: 4-6 LPA
Work From Office: Trivandrum

Freshers:

• Candidates from Computer Science, IT, or related courses, 2026 UG/PG & 2027 PG, who can join full-time and are available for immediate engagement.
• Relevant hands-on skills, internships, certifications, projects or practical exposure in DevOps or related.

We are looking for a motivated and proactive Junior DevOps Engineer to support and enhance our cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps practices. This role involves working with modern cloud platforms, containerized environments, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of applications.
The ideal candidate should be hands-on, eager to learn, collaborative, and passionate about automation, cloud technologies, and system reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in building, deploying, and maintaining cloud infrastructure and containerized applications.
• Work with AWS services (Fargate, ECS, DynamoDB, SNS, etc.) for managing distributed systems.
• Monitor system performance using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Splunk, and respond to alerts.
• Support CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
• Troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, networking, containers, and applications.
• Assist in configuring and managing Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, services, and ingress.
• Work on networking components such as load balancers, API gateways, reverse proxies, and service communication.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems.
• Automate repetitive tasks using scripts and tools to improve efficiency.
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, deployments, and troubleshooting processes.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve system reliability and deployment workflows.
• Participate in on-call or shift rotations to ensure system availability.

Preferred Skills:

Cloud Platforms and Services

1. Basic to intermediate knowledge of AWS services such as ECS, Fargate, DynamoDB, SNS.
2. Basic to intermediate knowledge of GCP services such as GKE, GAR, CloudSQL, Cloud Run.
3. Understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
4. Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning concepts (Terraform/CloudFormation is a plus).

Monitoring and Logging Tools

1. Knowledge of CloudWatch Logs, Loki, Splunk for log analysis.
2. Familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics monitoring and dashboarding.
3. Understanding of alerting systems (Alertmanager) and incident response workflows.
4. Ability to analyze logs and metrics to identify system issues.

Networking and Security

1. Strong understanding of load balancers (e.g., ALB, NLB) for distributing traffic and troubleshooting connectivity issues.
2. Knowledge in API Gateways like AWS API Gateway or NGINX for managing API traffic.
3. Knowledge of reverse proxies and ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX Ingress, Traefik) for managing internal/external traffic.
4. Understanding service-to-service communications, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and gRPC protocols.
5. Experience or hands-on knowledge with firewalls, security groups, and IAM roles for secure communications.
6. Troubleshooting skills for VM-related issues in platforms like AWS EC2 or equivalent.

DevOps Toolchains

1. Proficiency with Docker for managing container images and runtime debugging.
2. Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts of managing deployments, ingress setups, and pod-related issues and related troubleshooting commands and mechanisms.
3. Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline building tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD for building, deploying, and managing automated pipelines.
4. Understanding of Ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX, Traefik) and SSL termination for secure routing.

Troubleshooting and Incident Management

1. Strong problem-solving skills to identify root causes using logs, metrics, and system-level debugging.
2. Ability to document detailed troubleshooting steps and solutions for recurring issues.

Collaboration and Communication

1. Ability working with cross-functional teams (DevOps, development, and operations) to resolve incidents.
2. Skills in effective and proactive communication to escalate issues and provide updates during shift handovers.
3. Proficiency with tools like Slack, JIRA, Confluence, or Google Workspace for collaboration and issue tracking.