DevOps Engineer
About the company: Softermii (www.softermii.com) is an outsourcing/outstaffing company with more than 12 years of experience in web and mobile application development with a team of more than 100 specialists from 6 countries. We have withstood multiple challenges, such as COVID-19 pandemic and war aggression against Ukraine, we have secured sustainable development processes, saved all our projects and jobs. Even more — we’re constantly growing. Every day we add new projects to our portfolio in the following areas of expertise:
- Healthcare
- Real estate
- Livestream E-commerce
- Fintech (WealthTech, Capital Trading)
- Real-Time Communications (RTC)
In addition, we develop 2 of our own solutions that help our customers get faster applications for video or audio calls (www.softermii.com/solutions/vidrtc) or an application for real estate with 3D visualization (www.softermii.com/solutions/apartmii)
Company’s mission: Softermii: Succeed Without (L)imitations. We will turn any idea into a valuable product.
Our plans as a company: We want to move from a regular outsourcing business to an ecosystem of outsourcing, education, and product development companies. Over the years, we have arrived at a highly personalized working model with transparent workflows.
This model allows us to create software products that meet our clients’ goals with precision. We operate in an AI-assisted development environment, where engineering thinking, logical validation, and responsibility for business outcomes are more important than simply writing code.
About the Role
We are seeking a motivated Trainee/Junior DevOps Engineer with at least 3 months of hands-on experience to join our team. In this role, you will help support and maintain AWS infrastructure across various client projects, working under the guidance of senior engineers.
This is a solid opportunity to build real commercial experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD while learning from senior engineers on the team, in an AI-assisted engineering environment.
Type of cooperation: Remote, Full-time. Working hours generally follow Kyiv time.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in supporting and maintaining AWS infrastructure across several client projects.
- Help build and run containerized workloads, supporting deployments to orchestration platforms.
- Assist in maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
- Work with infrastructure as code using Terraform under the supervision of senior team members.
- Help set up and support monitoring and alerting, and gradually get involved in incident response.
- Automate routine operations using Bash and Python, ensuring efficiency in workflows.
Requirements & Qualifications:
- 3+ months of hands-on experience in DevOps.
- Good understanding of Linux fundamentals, including CLI usage, services management, and basic troubleshooting.
- Basic hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, and IAM, either through console or CLI.
- Familiarity with Docker, including building images and debugging containers.
- Understanding of CI/CD principles along with confident Git usage.
- Basic knowledge of Bash scripting for automation purposes.
- Practical experience using AI tools in daily engineering work, with the ability to review and verify outputs.
- English level B1+ — B2 (able to read technical documentation and communicate with the team).
Nice to Have:
- Technical education in Computer Science, IT, or a related field (completed or in progress).
- Networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, and load balancing concepts.
- Understanding of container orchestration concepts and platforms, such as Kubernetes or ECS/Fargate.
- Familiarity with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Experience with other cloud providers, such as Azure or GCP.
- AWS certification, such as Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.
What You’ll Get:
- Mentorship from experienced DevOps engineers and a clear path to grow into a Junior role.
- An opportunity for professional growth and development in a supportive environment.
- A chance to work on diverse client projects, enhancing your skills and experience.
- Access to industry-leading tools and technologies for continuous learning.
- A collaborative team culture that encourages knowledge sharing and innovation.
👨💻 Who will you have the opportunity to meet during the hiring process (stages): Call, HR, Tech interview, Final interview.
🥯 What we can offer you:
- We have stable and highly-functioning processes — everyone has their own role and clear responsibilities, so decisions are made quickly and without unnecessary approvals.
- You will have enough independence to make decisions that can affect not only the project but also the work of the company.
- We are a team of like-minded experts who create interesting products during working hours and enjoy spending free time together.
- Do you like to learn something new in your profession? We will be happy to pay 50% of the cost of courses/conferences.
- Do you want an individual development plan? We will form one especially for you + you can count on mentoring from our seniors and leaders.
- Do you have a friend who is currently looking for new job opportunities? Recommend them to us and get a bonus.
- And what if you want to relax? Then we have 32 working days off.
- What if you are feeling bad? You can take 5 sick leaves a year.
- Do you want to volunteer? We will add you to a chat, where we can get a bulletproof vest, buy a pickup truck or send children’s drawings to the front.
- And we have the most empathetic HRs (who also volunteers!). So we are ready to support your well-being in various ways.
👨🏫 A little more information that you may find useful:
- Our adaptation period lasts 3 months — this period of time is enough for us to understand each other better.
- There is a performance review after each year of our collaboration where we use a skills map to track your growth.
- We really have no boundaries in the truest sense of the word — flexible working hours, it’s up to you.
- Of course, we have a referral bonus system. So if you have a friend who likes our job opening, you can give us their telegram contact, and we in turn will thank you with a bonus if we start working with them!