Junior DevOps Engineer

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Job description

What it’s like to be a Junior DevOps Engineer at STX Next

As a Junior DevOps Engineer, you’ll support the team in building and maintaining Kubernetes-based infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You'll work on tools that help developers deploy applications efficiently and securely, while also learning best practices in infrastructure as code, GitOps, and cloud technologies. With guidance from experienced engineers, you’ll tackle real DevOps challenges and help create reliable environments for development and testing.

Responsibilities

• Co-creating an environment that increases the autonomy and efficiency of other teams within the company

• Developing your skills with team support

• Supporting the team by solving current DevOps challenges

• Maintaining and developing our new infrastructure

• Helping create tools and solutions for developers that will assist them in deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters and cloud environments

• Co-creating infrastructure for testing applications written in Node.js

• Implementing solutions for metrics, logs, and tracing

• Assisting in the development of CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

Must have:

• Superb communication skills: being comfortable asking questions and sharing ideas, knowing how to collaborate both with IT and non-IT stakeholders, staying open to exchanging feedback.

• Proactiveness: taking initiative, actively looking for opportunities to propose improvements, keeping ownership of your work.

• Practical experience in Kubernetes infrastructure setup and management (it can be proved by working on your own infrastructure in homelab environment)

• Familiarity with Helm (you know how to develop Helm charts)

• Experience with FluxCD or ArgocD as CD tools

• GitOps knowledge

• A working knowledge of IaC (e.g., in Terrafom)

• Understanding of modularization and component reusability

• Basic knowledge of integrating IaC into CI/CD pipelines.

• Good knowledge of English (min. B2)

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure.

Benefits

1. Work-life balance- We are open to discussing individual needs. Set up working hours and limited remote work scheduled with your team and manager, in a way that works for both sides.

2. Reimbursed private medical care (Medicover) and Multisport- We care about the health and well-being of our colleagues. Choose a sports card and dedicated medical care for yourself and your relatives.

3. Leader’s support- Work with true enthusiasts and professionals who will support you along the way. You can count on leaders and experts who are willing to share their knowledge so that you too can join their ranks someday.

4. Technology focus- Python and JavaScript are not our only strengths, we are also very good at React Native, IoT, Machine Learning, .Net, DevOps and Blockchain.

5. Growth review- Junior, Regular or Senior? Every year we have a chance to discuss acquired skills and prepare a development plan for upcoming months.

6. Events- Attend exciting internal webinars, celebrate special days with us, and join us at conferences and meetups as a listener or speaker!

7. Workation- Team trips where you have a chance as a team not only to work together, but also integrate f2f.