Junior DevOps Engineer

The Junior Azure Cloud Engineer supports the deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of cloud-based infrastructure and services in a Microsoft Azure environment. The role suits someone with practical Azure exposure who wants to develop further in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, and requires a minimum of three years of relevant experience.

Duties:

• Deploy, maintain, and support Azure infrastructure and services, including virtual machines, storage, networking, Azure SQL, and App Services

• Monitor platform health and performance using Azure Monitor and related tooling

• Investigate application and system logs to identify and resolve issues

• Troubleshoot problems across cloud environments, Linux and Windows systems, and core networking components such as DNS, VPN, virtual networks, and subnets

• Apply basic scripting and automation with Azure CLI, Bash, and PowerShell to support day-to-day operations

• Follow security fundamentals when configuring and supporting Azure resources

Requirements

• Minimum of three years of relevant experience

• Practical exposure to Microsoft Azure, including virtual machines, storage, networking, Azure SQL, App Services, and Azure Monitor

• Experience investigating application and system logs

• Experience working with Linux and Windows

• Understanding of basic networking concepts, including DNS, VPN, virtual networks, and subnets

• Basic scripting or automation with Azure CLI, Bash, or PowerShell

• Experience troubleshooting cloud environments

• Understanding of security fundamentals

• Advantageous: Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, Terraform, Python, Ansible, Azure Functions, monitoring and logging tools, or AZ-104 certification

Benefits

Monthly salary - R33,159.67.