( CS Batch 2025/2026 are preferred)-Trivandrum
Junior Devops Engineer with 0.5 - 3 years of experience
Trivandrum
Work From Office
4-6 LPA
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.
Technical Skills
Cloud Platforms and Services
- Basic to intermediate knowledge of AWS services such as ECS, Fargate, DynamoDB, SNS.
- Basic to intermediate knowledge of GCP services such as GKE, GAR, CloudSQL, Cloud Run.
- Understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning concepts (Terraform/CloudFormation is a plus).
Monitoring and Logging Tools
- Knowledge of CloudWatch Logs, Loki, Splunk for log analysis.
- Familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics monitoring and dashboarding.
- Understanding of alerting systems (Alertmanager) and incident response workflows.
- Ability to analyze logs and metrics to identify system issues.
Networking and Security
- Strong understanding of load balancers (e.g., ALB, NLB) for distributing traffic and troubleshooting connectivity issues.
- Knowledge in API Gateways like AWS API Gateway or NGINX for managing API traffic.
- Knowledge of reverse proxies and ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX Ingress, Traefik) for managing internal/external traffic.
- Understanding service-to-service communications, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and gRPC protocols.
- Experience or hands-on knowledge with firewalls, security groups, and IAM roles for secure communications.
- Troubleshooting skills for VM-related issues in platforms like AWS EC2 or equivalent.
DevOps Toolchains
- Proficiency with Docker for managing container images and runtime debugging.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts of managing deployments, ingress setups, and pod-related issues and related troubleshooting commands and mechanisms.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline building tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD for building, deploying, and managing automated pipelines.
- Understanding of Ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX, Traefik) and SSL termination for secure routing.
Troubleshooting and Incident Management
- Strong problem-solving skills to identify root causes using logs, metrics, and system-level debugging.
- Ability to document detailed troubleshooting steps and solutions for recurring issues.
Collaboration and Communication
- Ability working with cross-functional teams (DevOps, development, and operations) to resolve incidents.
- Skills in effective and proactive communication to escalate issues and provide updates during shift handovers.
- Proficiency with tools like Slack, JIRA, Confluence, or Google Workspace for collaboration and issue tracking.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: ₹400,000.00 - ₹600,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
