The role requires a strong focus on system reliability, scalability, and performance across cloud-based platforms. The ideal candidate collaborates closely with development, DevOps, and support teams to ensure high availability and operational excellence. Exposure to cloud infrastructure, automation, monitoring tools, and modern DevOps practices is a strong advantage.

Skills

• DevOps
• CICD
• AWS
• BASH
• Python
• Communication
• Documentation
• MySQL
• Monitoring

Requirements

• Job Role Junior Site Reliability Engineer
• Job Type Full Time
• Workplace Type Onsite
• Industry Software Development

Secondary locations

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Responsibilities

1. Monitor system health, availability, and performance across production and staging environments.
2. Respond to and resolve incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
3. Assist in maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and release management workflows.
4. Support cloud infrastructure management on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.).
5. Contribute to automation efforts to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
6. Maintain runbooks, incident reports, and operational documentation.
7. Collaborate with development teams to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
8. Assist with database health monitoring (MySQL, Oracle) and backup validation.
9. Support security and compliance initiatives including OWASP and SOC 2 controls.
10. Participate in on-call rotations and escalation support.

Other Requirements

1. 0–2 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering roles.
2. Basic understanding of Linux system administration.
3. Familiarity with AWS cloud services.
4. Exposure to CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar).
5. Basic scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar.
6. Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, load balancing).
7. Good communication and documentation skills.

Good to have

1. Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
2. Familiarity with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK/Elasticsearch).
3. Knowledge of Spring Boot or Java-based application stacks.
4. Understanding of database operations (MySQL, Oracle).
5. AWS Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect certification.

About the Company

Established in 2009, Polus is a global software solutions and product development company dedicated towards providing expert software development services and solutions for small, large and medium-sized companies. Polus thrives on process-driven software development and consulting models that meet the needs for a variety of consumers. We offer software and system product development, application development, mobile application development and more. Our methodology focuses on reliability, quick turnaround, and high-value product and we offer both on-site and off-shore options. We are a team of experienced employees that are experts in developing concise yet advanced software options for all types of customers. Creativity, flexibility, collaboration and personal initiative are core values at Polus, where our self-motivated workforce is always seeking opportunities to further their training and grow. Our people are our greatest strength. We have developed a team focused on inclusivity and collaboration, meaning that your role is fundamental to the team. Our employees are able to enjoy responsibility, even at an initial stage of profession. We focus on nurturing our employees' careers through each step of the way.