Job Description

Job Title: Junior Platform Engineer - DevOps - SRE - AWS

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: 6 months contract to hire

Rate: $38-$40/Hr all-inc

We re looking for a hands-on junior platform engineer to support a cloud-native environment with a strong DevOps/automation mindset. The ideal candidate has experience working in AWS, supporting containerized workloads, and building reliable delivery pipelines. This role will partner across infrastructure and application layers to improve deployment workflows, observability, and operational reliability.

Core requirements

3+ years in DevOps / platform / SRE-adjacent work (flexible)
Experience with AWS (any mix of ECS/EKS, EC2, IAM, networking basics)
Working knowledge of containers + Kubernetes concepts (hands-on preferred)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred; Cloud Formation ok)
CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab, etc.) and scripting/automation
Comfortable troubleshooting across distributed systems with good communication + follow-through

Nice to have

Hands-on EKS experience
Service mesh exposure (Istio or similar)
AI/automation experience (using AI to accelerate troubleshooting, scripts, runbooks, or pipeline improvements)

What they ll be doing

Supporting CI/CD pipelines and improving deployment reliability
Automating operational tasks and reducing toil (scripts, runbooks, self-service)
Helping maintain and monitor cloud/container environments (AWS + Kubernetes/EKS where needed)
Partnering with engineers on troubleshooting production issues and improving observability
Contributing to IaC and platform documentation/standards

Thank You, OpenKyber

For applications and inquiries, contact: hirings@openkyber.com

Job Tags

Contract work, Remote work, Flexible hours

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Junior DevOps Engineer Job at Openkyber, Illinois

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