Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) is a philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and data science solutions for a sustainable future. They are seeking a Junior DevOps Engineer to contribute to the development, deployment, and maintenance of data and AI products, while supporting cloud infrastructure and collaborating with nonprofit partners.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve our AWS environments using infrastructure-as-code
- Write frontend and backend production code for shared platform services and internal tooling
- Contribute to deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Support our Docker-based deployment platform, including build workflows, deployment strategies, and autoscaling
- Implement and maintain metrics, centralized logging, alerting, and dashboards
- Build and maintain internal documentation, service templates, and local development tooling
- Work directly with nonprofit partners to support their adoption of our tools
- Participate in stretch assignments and special projects in service of our broader strategic priorities
Skills
- 1-3 years of experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, or full-stack engineering role
- Hands-on experience deploying or supporting production systems on AWS or a comparable cloud platform
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, etc), source control (GitHub), issue tracking (Jira) and best practices
- Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) is required
- Exposure to containerization tools (e.g., Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) is also expected
- Ability to work effectively in a small, virtual, fast-moving team
- Communicate clearly in writing and conversation, document work thoughtfully, and demonstrate growing technical judgment when balancing short-term delivery needs with longer-term system considerations
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. (No visa sponsorship available)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field is preferred
- Working proficiency in Python or Go is strongly preferred
- Experience contributing to production codebases is preferred
- Exposure to monitoring, logging, and alerting systems and participating in incident response or on-call rotations
- Basic understanding of networking, system reliability, and security fundamentals
- Awareness of basic security best practices and an interest in learning how infrastructure security is maintained
- Interest in learning how teams monitor infrastructure costs and system efficiency
Benefits
- Foundation-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their spouses or domestic partners and dependents
- HSA/FSA plans
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan includes generous matching of up to 6% of annual pay, plus an additional discretionary match at the end of the year
- Unlimited paid time off
- 11 paid national holidays per year and may also announce closure for local, regional, or state holidays
- Monthly work support stipend to offset the costs of phone, internet, or co-working space
- Access to Ginger, Gympass, Headspace, and SmartSpend Plus, along with financial well-being service providers
- Up to 6 months of gender-neutral paid leave for parents and caregivers when they have a new addition to their families
- Encourage team members to explore development opportunities such as peer learning, internal training, and external activities
- Matching eligible charitable donations 1:1 up to $1,000 per calendar year
Company Overview
The Patrick J. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.mcgovern.org.