We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Junior IT & DevSecOps Engineer to join our growing team. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking to kickstart their career in a dynamic environment, focusing on IT support, development, security, and operations. You will play a key role in ensuring the security, stability, and efficiency of our cloud and physical infrastructure, while also providing essential technical support to internal users.
Responsibilities:
User & Access Management:
- Handle onboarding and offboarding workflows, including user account provisioning and deprovisioning across identity and access systems (e.g., AD, JumpCloud, Google Workspace).
- Provide Tier 1–2 IT support for internal users on Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems.
- Manage endpoint configurations, group policies, and authentication integrations.
Infrastructure & Networking:
- Assist in the deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of both cloud-based (AWS) and on-premise physical infrastructure.
- Configure and maintain office and remote networking components: VPNs, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, firewalls (e.g., FortiGate).
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues, network performance degradation, and outages.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
- Assist in securing containerized applications and platforms, specifically focusing on Kubernetes and Docker security best practices.
Security Implementation & Monitoring:
- Support the implementation and monitoring of security controls across our cloud and physical environments, including vulnerability scanning, intrusion detection, and access management.
- Help integrate security tools and practices into our CI/CD pipelines and existing systems.
- Enforce network access controls and segmentation (e.g., using NAC tools).
- Monitor and respond to endpoint and network security alerts (e.g., NAC, SentinelOne).
- Apply and maintain security controls for patch management, encryption, MFA, and antivirus.
Asset & License Management:
- Maintain hardware/software inventory and licensing using ITAM tools (e.g., Snipe-IT).
- Track assignment, condition, and lifecycle of all user devices and IT assets.
Documentation & Procedures:
- Contribute to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation for infrastructure, security procedures, and best practices.
- Document standard operating procedures (SOPs) for IT operations, security workflows, and troubleshooting.
- Contribute to the development of internal IT best practices and policies.
Requirements:
Qualifications:
- Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
- Proficiency in user/system administration within mixed environments (Windows/macOS/Linux).
- Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPN, NAT, routing.
- An interest in security principles and best practices.
- Familiarity with identity and access management, SSO/MFA, and cloud directory tools.
- Understanding of endpoint protection, patching, MDM, and security policies.
- Exposure to scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Powershell).
- Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
- Experience with ticketing systems and cross-functional user support.
- Ability to write and maintain clear technical documentation.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
- Knowledge of any IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, AWS Cloud Practitioner).