Junior DevOps Engineer

IT House is seeking a Junior DevOps Engineer for a direct placement opportunity with a leading end client in the Communications Engineering sector, based in Aveiro.

Main Responsibilities

• Build, operate and continuously improve automated CI/CD pipelines, including repository management, branching strategies and code quality enforcement;
• Administer Kubernetes clusters and support the applications running on them, ensuring reproducible environments through Infrastructure as Code;
• Plan and optimize resource usage, performance and operational costs across the container and platform landscape;
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting solutions to strengthen observability across systems and platforms;
• Embed security practices into CI/CD processes (DevSecOps) and manage secrets, certificates and identities;
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure, deployment and runtime issues, and lead root cause analysis following incidents.

Requirements

• Strong methodological understanding of software development or DevOps practices, backed by a relevant degree, training or hands-on IT experience;
• Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms (e.g. OpenShift or similar);
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab or ArgoCD, or equivalent solutions;
• Knowledge of observability practices and tooling (e.g. OpenTelemetry or comparable stacks);
• Willingness and enthusiasm to share knowledge with colleagues;
• Good English skills, required for cross-country collaboration.

Benefits

• Direct integration into the end client's organization;
• Contractual conditions aligned with the candidate's profile and experience;
• Hybrid working model (Aveiro).