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Junior Platform Engineer (DevOps)

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Junior Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Location: Remote
Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential extension or conversion)
Sponsorship: Not available

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Junior Platform Engineer (DevOps) to support a modern, cloud-native platform environment for a large, mission-driven digital education organization serving learners nationwide. This role is ideal for an early-career DevOps or platform engineer looking to grow while working on real-world systems at enterprise scale.

You will collaborate closely with infrastructure and application teams to improve deployment workflows, automation, observability, and overall operational reliability. The environment emphasizes AWS, containerized workloads, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD best practices supporting a highly available platform.

This is a fully remote, six-month contract offering strong exposure to enterprise-scale cloud operations.

Responsibilities

Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability
Automate operational tasks to reduce manual toil using scripts, runbooks, and self-service tooling
Assist in maintaining and monitoring cloud and containerized environments (AWS and Kubernetes/EKS)
Partner with engineers to troubleshoot production issues and improve observability
Contribute to Infrastructure as Code, platform documentation, and engineering standards

Required Qualifications

1–3+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE-adjacent roles
Experience working with AWS services such as EC2, IAM, networking fundamentals, and ECS or EKS
Working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes concepts (hands-on experience preferred)
Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation acceptable)
Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, or similar platforms
Basic scripting and automation experience
Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems with clear communication and follow-through

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS
Exposure to service mesh technologies such as Istio
Experience using AI-assisted tools to accelerate troubleshooting, scripting, runbooks, or pipeline improvements

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 10286200
Position Id: 250240
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