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 ServicesMonitor 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.