About the company: Softermii (www.softermii.com) is an outsourcing/outstaffing company with more than 12 years of experience in web and mobile application development with a team of more than 100 specialists from 6 countries. We have withstood multiple challenges, such as COVID-19 pandemic and war aggression against Ukraine, we have secured sustainable development processes, saved all our projects and jobs. Even more — we’re constantly growing. Every day we add new projects to our portfolio in the following areas of expertise: * Healthcare * Real estate * Livestream E-commerce * Fintech (WealthTech, Capital Trading) * Real-Time Communications (RTC)
In addition, we develop 2 of our own solutions that help our customers get faster applications for video or audio calls (www.softermii.com/solutions/vidrtc) or an application for real estate with 3D visualization (www.softermii.com/solutions/apartmii)
Company’s mission: Softermii: Succeed Without (L)imitations. We will turn any idea into a valuable product.
Our plans as a company: We want to move from a regular outsourcing business to an ecosystem of outsourcing, education, and product development companies. Over the years, we have arrived at a highly personalized working model with transparent workflows.
This model allows us to create software products that meet our clients’ goals with precision. We operate in an AI-assisted development environment, where engineering thinking, logical validation, and responsibility for business outcomes are more important than simply writing code.
About the Role: We are looking for a motivated Junior DevOps Engineer to join our R&D team and help support and maintain AWS infrastructure across several client projects. At the start you’ll have a limited allocation to one project — the specific project is chosen based on business needs at the time you join — with room to take on broader infrastructure ownership as you grow.
This is a solid opportunity to build real commercial experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD while learning from senior engineers on the team, in an AI-assisted engineering environment.
Type of cooperation: Remote, Full-time. Working hours generally follow Kyiv time.
Key Responsibilities: * Support and maintain AWS infrastructure across several client projects * Build and run containerized workloads; support deployments to orchestration platforms * Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) * Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform * Set up and support monitoring and alerting; participate in incident response * Automate routine operations using Bash and Python * Keep infrastructure documentation and runbooks up to date
Requirements & Qualifications: * 1+ year of commercial experience in DevOps, SRE, system administration, or cloud support roles * Solid Linux fundamentals: CLI usage, services management, log analysis, and basic troubleshooting * Basic hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, and IAM (console or CLI) * Familiarity with Docker, including building images and debugging containers * Understanding of CI/CD principles along with confident Git usage * Basic knowledge of Bash scripting for automation purposes * Practical experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code) in daily engineering work, with the judgement to review and verify output before it reaches infrastructure * English level B1+ — you’ll communicate directly with client teams * Willingness to learn fast, ask questions, and take ownership of tasks
Nice to Have: * Networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, and load balancing concepts * Understanding of container orchestration concepts and platforms, such as Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate, or Docker Swarm * Familiarity with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools * Experience with other cloud providers, such as Azure or GCP * Practical experience with EKS, ECS, or Helm * Familiarity with a monitoring stack: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch * Familiarity with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Redis * Python for automation * AWS certification, such as Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate * Personal projects, home lab, or open-source contributions we can look at
Who will you have the opportunity to meet during the hiring process (stages): Call, HR, Tech interview, Final interview.
What we can offer you: * We have stable and highly-functioning processes — everyone has their own role and clear responsibilities, so decisions are made quickly and without unnecessary approvals. * You will have enough independence to make decisions that can affect not only the project but also the work of the company. * We are a team of like-minded experts who create interesting products during working hours and enjoy spending free time together. * Do you like to learn something new in your profession? We will be happy to pay 50% of the cost of courses/conferences. * Do you want an individual development plan? We will form one especially for you + you can count on mentoring from our seniors and leaders. * Do you have a friend who is currently looking for new job opportunities? Recommend them to us and get a bonus. * And what if you want to relax? Then we have 32 working days off. * What if you are feeling bad? You can take 5 sick leaves a year. * Do you want to volunteer? We will add you to a chat, where we can get a bulletproof vest, buy a pickup truck or send children’s drawings to the front. * And we have the most empathetic HRs (who also volunteers!). So we are ready to support your well-being in various ways.
A little more information that you may find useful: * Our adaptation period lasts 3 months — this period of time is enough for us to understand each other better. * There is a performance review after each year of our collaboration where we use a skills map to track your growth. * We really have no boundaries in the truest sense of the word — flexible working hours, it’s up to you. * Of course, we have a referral bonus system. So if you have a friend who likes our job opening, you can give us their telegram contact, and we in turn will thank you with a bonus if we start working with them!
