Junior DevOps Engineer

About the Company

Albany Beck is a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you'll be choosing to work with an organisation that's passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development.

Role Overview

Albany beck is growing its security practice and we have an opportunity for a Junior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting a large-scale enterprise cloud platform that underpins business-critical systems within a highly regulated environment. You will work closely with senior engineers and vendor specialists to operate, support and automate a highly resilient platform while developing strong DevOps and cloud engineering skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Learning & Supporting the Platform: Help support a live production platform by carrying out day-to-day tasks under guidance from senior engineers.
• Automation & Improvement: Learn how to automate manual tasks and improve systems so they can fix common problems themselves.
• DevOps Fundamentals: Get hands-on experience with core DevOps practices like CI/CD, monitoring, automation and platform reliability.
• Scripting & Tools: Write simple scripts (using Python, Bash or similar) to help the team work faster and more efficiently.
• Tickets & Incidents: Update and close tickets, learning how professional engineering teams manage work and incidents.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with other engineers, ask questions, take part in training sessions and learn through doing.
• On-Call: After training, you'll gradually be supported into joining an on-call rota, with full mentoring and backup.
• Documentation: Help keep guides and runbooks up to date so everyone knows how systems work and how to fix common issues.

Key Skills & Experience Required

• Experience in a technical role (DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, support or similar)
• Some experience with scripting (Python, Bash, or similar)
• Basic understanding of how applications run in the cloud or on servers
• Familiarity with tools like Git, CI/CD pipelines, or monitoring is a plus (not essential)
• Comfortable using ticketing tools like Jira