Junior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & Automation

Apex Systems; Greenwood Village, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K

ESPP

HSA

Career training

Certification discounts

EAP

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking a Jr. DevOps Engineer for our Greenwood Village, CO team onsite. You will help optimize CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM), and support automation with Terraform and Ansible while collaborating with senior engineers to improve reliability.

The role requires 2+ years of DevOps or cloud experience, scripting in Python or Bash, and familiarity with Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD. A strong communicator who enjoys cross-functional work will fit well.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, Route53, ALB preferred).
• Exposure to Kubernetes, ideally EKS.
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and/or GitLab CI/CD.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Python and/or Bash scripting experience.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, deployments, application performance, logging, or monitoring issues.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineers and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
• Assist with AWS infrastructure administration and troubleshooting across EKS, EC2, S3, ALB, and Route53.
• Support infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python and Bash.
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, deployments, and application performance issues.
• Support logging, monitoring, and observability initiatives using Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Loki, and Fluent Bit.
• Document processes and collaborate with senior engineers to improve operational efficiency and reliability.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Ansible

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Monitoring & logging

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Loki

Fluent Bit

Job description

Apex Systems is seeking a Jr. DevOps Engineer for our Greenwood Village, CO team onsite. You will help optimize CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM), and support automation with Terraform and Ansible while collaborating with senior engineers to improve reliability.

The role requires 2+ years of DevOps or cloud experience, scripting in Python or Bash, and familiarity with Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD. A strong communicator who enjoys cross-functional work will fit well.