Junior DevOps Engineer

Location: Okhla, New Delhi Type: Full-Time, In Office
Team: Engineering Experience: 1-3 Years

Role Overview

We are looking for a Junior DevOps Engineer with foundational experience in AWS, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines. You will work alongside the senior DevOps lead and engineering teams to manage infrastructure, automate deployments, and improve the reliability and observability of our platform. This role suits someone who is hands-on, eager to learn production infrastructure, and comfortable working across a polyglot stack - .NET, Python, and NodeJS services running on AWS.

What You Will Work On;

CI/CD Deployment Pipelines;

• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions and Jenkins
• Manage GitHub repositories - branching strategies, access controls, and PR workflows
• Configure GitHub Actions for automated build, test, and deployment triggers
• Support deployment of .NET, Python, and NodeJS applications to AWS environments
• Manage IIS deployments on Windows Server for .NET backend services

Cloud Infrastructure - AWS;

• Provision and manage AWS services - EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, SES, CloudWatch
• Monitor infrastructure health using CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and log groups
• Manage IAM roles, policies, and access controls across environments
• Support environment setup and configuration across dev, staging, and production
• Assist with cost monitoring and resource optimisation on AWS

Containerisation Configuration;

• Work with Docker for containerising services and managing local and cloud environments
• Maintain environment configuration files and secrets management
• Support infrastructure-as-code efforts using AWS CloudFormation or similar tooling

Monitoring Observability;

• Set up and maintain application and infrastructure monitoring using CloudWatch and third-party tools
• Configure log aggregation, alerting, and on-call runbooks
• Assist in diagnosing and resolving production infrastructure issues
• Track uptime, latency, and error rates across services

Database Middleware Operations;

• Support operational management of MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Redis on AWS
• Assist with backup configuration, restore testing, and database access management
• Monitor Kafka cluster health and support basic operational tasks

Security Compliance;

• Apply security best practices - least-privilege IAM, security groups, VPC configuration
• Manage SSL certificates and domain configurations
• Assist with audit logging and environment hardening

Required Skills

Source Control CI/CD;

• GitHub - repository management, branching, access control, PR workflows
• GitHub Actions - workflow authoring for build, test, and deploy automation
• AWS CodeBuild CodeDeploy - pipeline setup and maintenance
• Basic understanding of release management and deployment rollback strategies

AWS Cloud;

• EC2 - instance provisioning, AMIs, auto-scaling basics
• S3 - storage management, bucket policies, lifecycle rules
• RDS - managed database operations, backups, parameter groups
• ElastiCache - Redis cluster management
• SQS / SNS / SES - messaging and notification service configuration
• CloudWatch - log groups, metrics, dashboards, alarms
• IAM - roles, policies, users, and least-privilege access
• VPC - subnets, security groups, routing basics

Infrastructure OS;

• Linux (Ubuntu/Amazon Linux) - shell scripting, file system, process management
• Windows Server - IIS configuration and troubleshooting for .NET deployments
• Docker - image build, container run, basic compose setups

General;

• Basic understanding of networking - DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancers, SSL/TLS
• Familiarity with secrets management - environment variables, AWS Secrets Manager or Parameter Store
• Comfort reading application logs to triage infrastructure-related issues

Good to Have

• Exposure to Terraform or AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code
• Familiarity with Kafka - cluster monitoring, topic management basics
• Experience with APM or observability tools - Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana
• Exposure to Nginx or reverse proxy configuration
• Basic scripting in Python or Bash for automation tasks

Preferred Candidate Background;

• Has worked in a product-based or startup engineering environment
• Has deployed at least one live application to AWS independently
• Comfortable with multiple tech stacks - not tied to a single language or framework -…