Junior DevOps Engineer

Company overview

Based in San Jose, Prairie Technology Group also runs a small colocation rack for clients who want local backups. From the San Jose office, we cover clients within about a two-hour drive and support remote sites through RMM tools. Certification exams are paid for, and passing one comes with a raise.

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. DevOps role with a strong infrastructure-as-code focus. Most of what we run is defined in Terraform and deployed through GitHub Actions. You'll sit between development and operations, fixing broken pipelines, writing automation and keeping environments consistent. Hybrid: two days in the office in Chula Vista, the rest from home.

Responsibilities

• Implement blue-green and canary deployments.
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched.
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.
• Track and reduce cloud spend with tagging, budgets and rightsizing.
• Handle secrets with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault.

What we're looking for

• 1+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role.
• Built at least one CI/CD pipeline from scratch.
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production.
• Scripting in Bash and Python.
• Calm under pressure during outages.

Desirable

• Argo CD or Flux for GitOps.

What you get

Rate: $102,000 - $127,000/year

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid holidays.
• Cell phone reimbursement.
• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• Flexible schedule.
• Paid time off.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Prairie Technology Group.