Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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Junior engineer who designs, builds, and maintains AWS infrastructure (Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, GitLab CI) hosting a mission-critical microservices platform serving the global hospitality industry. The role expects basic cloud/Linux skills plus a strong willingness to learn with team guidance.
Shiji is a global technology company dedicated to providing innovative solutions for the hospitality industry, ensuring seamless operations for hoteliers day and night.
Built on the Shiji Platform—the only truly global hotel technology platform—Shiji’s cloud-based portfolio includes Property Management System, Point-of-Sale, guest engagement, distribution, payments, and data intelligence solutions for over 91,000 hotels worldwide, including the largest chains.
The best hotels run on Shiji — day and night.
What You Will Do:
- You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure that hosts a microservices-based application on AWS. This supports a mission-critical, stable, long-term global product.
- Infrastructure-related decision-making is embedded directly within our team—we choose the technologies, design the architecture, implement it, and maintain it.
- For a Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, we expect a basic level of technical knowledge. More importantly, we value a strong can-do attitude and the willingness to learn and grow with guidance in the right direction.
Technologies used in our team:
- AWS
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Elasticsearch
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- VictoriaMetrics
- Hashicorp stack
- Gitlab
- Nexus
Our Daily Work:
- We use Kanban to manage tasks.
- Our teamwork is based on Jira.
- We participate in daily, weekly and retro meetings.
- We use Gitlab as a code repository with a trunk-based development approach.
- We use Gitlab CI to automate our (and other's) jobs.
- We build environments in AWS with Terraform/Terragrunt.
- We develop deployment solutions for Kubernetes.
- We support local environments with Docker/docker-compose (for developers).
- We create libraries, tools and AWS Lambdas in Python.
- We create Docker images for automation and internal usage.
- We act using the "Everything as Code" philosophy.
- We do not release applications to the environments (there is a dedicated team of Release Managers).
- We use MS Teams to spread knowledge and participate in meetings.
Our System:
- Our primary cloud service provider is AWS. We use most of the popular services including EC2, S3, RDS, SES, SNS and many more.
- We write all of our infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Our application that is written in .NET Core runs on top of Kubernetes cluster deployed in EKS.
- We have very large observability stack that includes collecting logs and metrics and visualizing it in Grafana and Kibana.
- DevOps Team are also responsible for managing GitLab, Jenkins and Nexus.
- We write our internal tool set using Python and Golang.
Requirements
- Minimum of 1 year of commercial experience in a similar position.
- Experience in managing and troubleshooting GNU/Linux operating systems.
- Experience working with Docker and docker-compose.
- Basic networking skills.
- Basic programming skills (Bash or Python preferred).
- Basic knowledge of AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda) or similar cloud platforms.
Nice to have:
- Proficiency in CI/CD processes, particularly using GitLab.