Junior DevOps Engineer – Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Umanist Staffing; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Umanist Staffing seeks an Associate DevOps Engineer to join the Infrastructure team. You will collaborate with DevOps and Software teams to scale cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Ideal candidates have a strong Linux, Docker, Kubernetes foundation, cloud exposure, automation skills, and eagerness to grow in cloud-native engineering. On-site position with immediate-to-30 day notice implications.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of hands-on DevOps, cloud support or systems administration.
• 1+ year of AWS experience.
• 1+ year of Kubernetes experience.
• 1+ year of Docker experience.
• Strong Linux administration skills and networking basics.
• Experience with Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and monitor containerized microservices across Kubernetes environments (EKS, GKE, AKS).
• Create and maintain Dockerfiles and manage container images and registries.
• Support and optimize CI/CD pipelines using major tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Assist in developing Terraform/CloudFormation IaC scripts.
• Configure monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and alerting.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes and infra issues (CrashLoopBackOff, networking, cloud alerts).
• Automate tasks with Bash or Python.
• Support GitOps-based deployment and cloud-native practices.

Skills

1–3 years

1+ year AWS experience

1+ year Kubernetes experience

1+ year Docker experience

Linux administration

Git workflows & CI/CD pipelines

kubectl proficiency

Shell scripting (Bash)

Python scripting

Education

CKA -- Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CKAD -- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

HashiCorp Terraform Associate

Tools

Dockerfiles

Terraform/CloudFormation

CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

Prometheus/Grafana/ELK

Kubernetes environments (EKS/GKE/AKS)

kubectl

ArgoCD/Flux (GitOps)

Helm charts

Istio/Linkerd (service mesh)

Job description

Umanist Staffing seeks an Associate DevOps Engineer to join the Infrastructure team. You will collaborate with DevOps and Software teams to scale cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Ideal candidates have a strong Linux, Docker, Kubernetes foundation, cloud exposure, automation skills, and eagerness to grow in cloud-native engineering. On-site position with immediate-to-30 day notice implications.