Junior DevOps Engineer

​​​​Location: Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Work type: Hybrid with expectation to work a few days a week from the office.

Why are we hiring?

We’re growing! We are looking at strengthening our fantastic DevOps team and are looking for a junior candidate to join our friendly team. 

What level is the role?

We are looking for junior candidates that will be the right fit for our culture and approach. While relevant experience matters, fitting into our team is of the utmost importance. 

You will

• Deliver Results
  You will work in a blame-free yet highly outcome driven environment. You will see how our team is committed to add value and deliver results, and learn the skills and attitude to thrive as you develop your career.

• Feel Ownership
  You will care about the team and the outcomes. You are a team player that will help colleagues so that we meet our objectives as a team.

• Insist on the Highest Standards
  You will learn to not turn a blind eye to things that are not good enough. We value feedback and want to improve the company in all aspects - and at all levels.

• Bias for Action
  Speed matters to us, and you will learn that many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking. You are or will become a doer.

• Earn Trust
  We want people who can listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. You are confident enough to be vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. We benchmark ourselves and our teams against the best and want you to be able to do so too. You will be humble and open minded.

As part of a self-driven and agile team, you will be learning alongside mentors and experienced colleagues to improve the product, support your colleagues design and implement cool new features, and learn the fundamentals of the role. Working on cutting edge software solutions utilising micro-service oriented architecture, you will be learning and working with a wide variety of AWS services. 

Your thirst for learning will take you through the AWS certification programme paid for by the company: as an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, we have an ongoing certification programme for all staff.

As a Junior DevOps Engineer you will

• Be immersed in AWS tools and techniques at the heart of modern cloud systems

• Learn to use tools such as Terraform to automate AWS Cloud infrastructure deployments

• Taught to develop DevOps solutions to help achieve highly available, highly scalable AWS Cloud-powered products.

• Get experience in maintaining and deploying critical infrastructure components through Infrastructure-as-Code tooling across multiple environments.

• Become adept at the best practices for relevant services.

• Help drive ongoing improvement across our platforms.

Minimal Role Requirements

• An understanding or basic networking knowledge of concepts such as DNS, VPCs, subnetting and similar

• Basic knowledge of programming concepts

• Basic understanding of web server concepts such as Nginx or Apache.

• Cloud computing principles 

• Solid knowledge of English language

If you meet the above requirements, have a thirst for knowledge and fit in culturally - do apply. Over the last 10 years we have trained a large number of excellent engineers and will continue to do so. 

You can earn extra points for any of the following

• Knowledge or understanding of AWS services - GCP and Azure are also relevant

• An understanding or basic Linux knowledge 

• Understanding of the principles of CI/CD processes and tools: CodePipeline & CodeBuild, or Jenkins

• Understanding the importance of software development methodologies and development life cycle

• Effectively communicate to technical and non-technical teammates in English

• Excellent English-language technical writing skills

• Any programming skills - bonus for Python, Go, or Bash

• Experience or even a degree in one or more following disciplines: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Maths

In time you can look forward to

• Business trips to the UK (and elsewhere!)

• Visas to UK

• Online Education

• Free English lessons

• Full pay maternity leave / Extended Paternity leave

• New Year presents for the kids 

• Work From Home

• National Day Bonus

• Extra ½ hour for lunch

• AWS Partner-only training and exams

• Informal working environment, friendly and supportive colleagues

• Extra holidays after 3 years permanent employment

Please get in touch by emailing your CV to careers@gpp.io with the job title as a subject.