Junior DevOps Engineer
Insight Global · Charlotte, NC
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Jul 27, 2026
Charlotte, NC
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An early-career DevOps/Cloud Engineer role supporting a financial services client's Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and CI/CD pipelines. Day-to-day work involves building and maintaining deployment automation, writing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, scripting operational tasks, and assisting with application migration to an enterprise platform. Well-suited to a candidate with a CKA certification and 0–3 years of hands-on cloud and DevOps experience.
Junior level · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting is placed by Insight Global (a staffing firm), which typically indicates a contract or contract-to-hire engagement; employment type is set to Contract accordingly, though the posting does not explicitly state this.
The required experience range is 0.5–3 years, making this a genuine entry-level/junior role despite the CKA certification requirement.
GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps appear both in the required CI/CD tools list (as named alternatives) and again as standalone items under Nice-to-Haves. They are captured as required (as alternatives to the CI/CD gate) and also as preferred to reflect the Nice-to-Have callout.
The CI/CD requirement names GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Azure DevOps as acceptable alternatives — one skill entry is emitted with these as alternatives per the interchangeable-options rule.
The scripting requirement names Python, PowerShell, Bash, Shell, and JavaScript as alternatives — one skill entry is emitted with the others as alternatives.
PagerDuty appears in the Nice-to-Haves as a monitoring tool exposure item; it is also mentioned in the responsibilities (on-call rotation), but the Nice-to-Have section is the only place it is framed as a candidate skill gate, so it is captured under the Dynatrace/ELK Stack/PagerDuty preferred skill.
Degree requirement is set to None because the posting accepts 'equivalent experience' in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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