Remote Junior Backend & DevOps Engineer

NTT DATA North America; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 75,168 - 156,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with match

PTO

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Job summary

NTT DATA North America seeks a junior back-end/devops developer to join our Arlington team, with remote work options within Virginia and the US. You will support back-end services, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployment pipelines, growing skills in modern backend development, AWS cloud technologies, and DevOps practices.

The role involves designing and maintaining APIs, working with AWS services, contributing to CI/CD, IaC with Terraform, and writing tests.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend development experience using Python, Java, Node.js or similar languages
• 2+ years of hands-on Python experience
• 1+ year building or integrating RESTful APIs using standard API design principles or OpenAPI
• 1+ year of Git/GitHub experience for source control and PRs
• 1+ year of experience with relational or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• Ability to obtain/maintain a Public Trust Clearance

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, developing, testing, and maintaining back-end services and applications.
• Help build and maintain RESTful APIs using standard API design principles and OpenAPI specifications.
• Work with AWS cloud services such as Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and S3.
• Participate in DevOps workflows to support development, testing, deployment, and monitoring processes.
• Help develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, tests, and deployments.
• Assist in writing and maintaining basic Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar tools.
• Use Git and GitHub for branching, pull requests, code reviews, and collaboration.
• Support database integrations and write simple queries for relational or NoSQL systems.
• Assist in implementing logging, metrics, dashboards, and troubleshooting application issues.
• Learn and apply secure coding practices and responsible dependency management.
• Contribute to code reviews and help write automated tests.
• Maintain clear, accurate technical documentation for APIs, cloud resources, deployment processes, and troubleshooting steps.
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, architects, and project managers to deliver integrated solutions.
• Assist with production deployments, issue investigation, and bug fixes.
• Stay current with emerging back-end, cloud, and DevOps tools and best practices.

Skills

Python

Java

Node.js

REST APIs

Git/GitHub

Databases

Cloud basics

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

NTT DATA North America seeks a junior back-end/devops developer to join our Arlington team, with remote work options within Virginia and the US. You will support back-end services, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployment pipelines, growing skills in modern backend development, AWS cloud technologies, and DevOps practices.

The role involves designing and maintaining APIs, working with AWS services, contributing to CI/CD, IaC with Terraform, and writing tests.