Remote Junior DevOps Engineer - Cloud Infra & CI/CD

The Ninth Seat; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension scheme with employer's

Annual training & cloud cert budget

Laptop and home-office equipment

30 days paid holiday

Flexible working hours

Job summary

The Ninth Seat is a Seattle-based platform engineering firm hiring a Junior DevOps Engineer. This full-time remote role operates from Germany with overlap to Seattle hours. You’ll work on Terraform for cloud networks, CI/CD pipelines, Docker images, Kubernetes with Helm, and instrumentation of logs and alerts.

Flexible hours and home-office setup are provided. Ideal candidates have Linux experience, Git workflow, and scripting skills (Bash/Python).

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science or completed IT training, or a year of work with Linux servers
• Git: branches, merge requests and resolving conflicts
• Bash or Python scripts for routine tasks
• At least one project where you built and ran a container with Docker
• Bonus: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, with or without a certification; Kubernetes, Prometheus or Grafana; Terraform or Ansible

Responsibilities

• Write and review Terraform for cloud networks, compute and managed databases
• Keep CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI building, testing and deploying on every merge
• Package services as Docker images and roll them out to Kubernetes with Helm
• Add logs, metrics and alerts to services so a slow request can be traced
• Bring changes made by hand in a cloud console back into code
• Write the operating instructions that go with each change

Skills

Git

Bash or Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Education

Degree in computer science or IT training

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

AWS/Azure/GCP

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

The Ninth Seat is a Seattle-based platform engineering firm hiring a Junior DevOps Engineer. This full-time remote role operates from Germany with overlap to Seattle hours. You’ll work on Terraform for cloud networks, CI/CD pipelines, Docker images, Kubernetes with Helm, and instrumentation of logs and alerts.

Flexible hours and home-office setup are provided. Ideal candidates have Linux experience, Git workflow, and scripting skills (Bash/Python).