Junior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Support the team in keeping infrastructure and deployment processes reliable, scalable, and secure – always with guidance and room to learn.
• Help maintain and improve systems (patching, updates, backups, certificate management) under guidance.
• Assist with deploying new services and supporting migrations to improved solutions.
• Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across the platform.
• Support building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines (e.g. Bitbucket Pipelines, ArgoCD).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code components (e.g. Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform) under guidance.
• Help maintain and improve observability tooling (e.g. CheckMK, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Prometheus & Sentry).
• Support automated security checks in CI/CD (e.g. SAST, DAST, SCA).
• Write and maintain clear, easy-to-follow technical documentation.

Requirements

• Completed IT apprenticeship (e.g. Informatiker/in EFZ) or comparable education, or first professional experience in IT operations/infrastructure.
• Solid Linux/Unix fundamentals – shell, processes, file systems, permissions, and remote access (SSH/RDP).
• Basic networking knowledge (IP, DHCP, DNS, gateways, firewalling).
• First experience with scripting (Bash, with exposure to Python, PowerShell, or Golang).
• Basic understanding of containers (container vs. VM, Docker basics).
• A genuine motivation to learn new technologies where the knowledge is not yet there.
• Fluent German and good English, written and spoken.