Junior DevOps Engineer - Build Infra, Automate, Secure

Penny Software; Manama; On-site; BHD 12,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Penny Software in Manama is seeking a Junior DevOps Engineer to join a newly built infra team. This on-site, full-time role focuses on building and maintaining a robust cloud and CI/CD environment to support development and deployment pipelines.

You will work with Terraform, Github Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes to automate deployments, improve reliability, and implement security best practices while collaborating with developers and other IT specialists.

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux bash scripting and cloud concepts.
• Familiarity with Terraform and IaC practices.
• Understanding of CI/CD workflows and deployment automation.
• Basic knowledge of Docker and container runtimes.
• Reading and understanding at least one programming language (JS or Python).
• Security best practices for infrastructure.
• Understanding of monitoring/observability of infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Set up automation with CI/CD.
• Optimize Github Actions workflows.
• Assist developers with deployments.
• Replace manually deployed infra with IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu).
• Troubleshoot infra resources and tune autoscaling.
• Security hardening of infrastructure.
• Administer MongoDB Atlas clusters.
• Work on monitoring and observability.
• Manage IAM permissions and credentials.

Skills

Linux bash scripting

CI/CD concepts

Programming basics

Infrastructure security

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Github Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

MongoDB Atlas

GCP Secrets Manager

Job description

Penny Software in Manama is seeking a Junior DevOps Engineer to join a newly built infra team. This on-site, full-time role focuses on building and maintaining a robust cloud and CI/CD environment to support development and deployment pipelines.

You will work with Terraform, Github Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes to automate deployments, improve reliability, and implement security best practices while collaborating with developers and other IT specialists.