Junior DevOps Engineer - Remote/Hybrid, Mentored Growth

AgileGrid Solutions; United States; Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship from senior engineers

Remote or hybrid work near Boulder

Job summary

Flatirons Solutions seeks an entry-/associate-level DevOps Engineer to join the Hosting Operations team. You will operate and improve Linux/Windows infrastructure, automate tasks, apply patches, and move services toward container-based operations while collaborating with senior engineers.

You’ll contribute to high-availability environments, backups, and on-call rotation, with mentoring as you grow your responsibilities and skills. Remote or hybrid work is available for those near Boulder.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or hands-on equivalent.
• Zero to two years in IT support, systems administration, cloud ops, or DevOps.
• Foundational Linux administration and basic Windows tasks.
• Familiar with Bash or shell scripting.
• Exposure to containers (Docker, Swarm, Podman).
• Understanding of patching, security, and access management.
• Familiar with IaC/CI/CD tools (Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible).
• Interest in virtualization, HA, and cluster management.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain Linux and Windows systems, services, access, networking, and logs.
• Apply security patches and mitigations for compliance and vulnerability reduction.
• Develop and improve automation and scripting for operations.
• Support highly available services, databases, and virtualized infra.
• Move services toward container-based operations and related infra improvements.
• Assist with backup and snapshot workflows, including restore validation.
• Use AI tools to support automation; review changes before implementation.
• Track work in Jira Kanban and keep status visible.
• Document environments clearly for operations and recovery.

Skills

Linux administration

Windows administration

Bash scripting

Containerization

CI/CD

Automation

Monitoring/logging

Jira/Kanban

AI tooling for automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Docker Swarm

Podman

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Kubernetes

VMware/vCenter

HAProxy

Patroni

Veeam/Zerto

Job description

Flatirons Solutions seeks an entry-/associate-level DevOps Engineer to join the Hosting Operations team. You will operate and improve Linux/Windows infrastructure, automate tasks, apply patches, and move services toward container-based operations while collaborating with senior engineers.

You’ll contribute to high-availability environments, backups, and on-call rotation, with mentoring as you grow your responsibilities and skills. Remote or hybrid work is available for those near Boulder.