About Careertakes

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Position overview

Confidential Client (via Careertakes) is hiring an entry-level Junior SDET / Senior Associate to join an IT-focused engineering team in Burlington, MA. This role is an excellent fit for recent graduates or early-career engineers (1–3 years experience) who want hands-on exposure to cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, automation, and quality engineering.

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What you’ll do (Responsibilities)

• Support and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application builds, deployments, and automated validations (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Assist with provisioning and configuring development, QA, UAT, and pre-production environments.
• Automate manual deployment, provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks.
• Develop and maintain automation and tooling scripts using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code projects using Terraform, Ansible, or comparable tools.
• Support cloud-hosted environments (primarily Microsoft Azure; some exposure to AWS possible).
• Participate in software release, patch, and hotfix deployments; troubleshoot and escalate pipeline or deployment failures.
• Help maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational health checks.
• Create and keep current deployment documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Support automated execution of smoke, regression, and release-validation test suites and help integrate quality gates into pipelines.
• Investigate test failures to distinguish infrastructure, test-data, automation, and application issues.
• Collaborate with QA and development teams during release validation and defect triage.
• Follow established security, compliance, source-control, and DevSecOps practices while contributing to cloud adoption and platform modernization efforts.

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Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline. Recent graduates with internships or academic projects are encouraged to apply.
• 1–3 years of professional experience (or equivalent internship/co-op experience) in DevOps, cloud operations, system administration, infrastructure or software engineering, or quality engineering.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD concepts and exposure to tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with Git and source-control workflows.
• Basic scripting ability in PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Shell.
• Foundational knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Understanding of software build, deployment, and release processes.
• Exposure to Azure or AWS cloud platforms.
• Basic knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, SSL certificates.
• Familiarity with Agile development and foundational testing concepts (smoke, functional, regression, automated testing).

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Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on exposure to Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience or exposure to Docker and Kubernetes.
• Entry-level cloud certifications (Azure Fundamentals AZ-900, AWS Cloud Practitioner) are a plus.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with API testing and tools such as Postman; basic exposure to Playwright, Selenium, or REST Assured is helpful.
• Academic or personal project experience deploying applications or automation in the cloud.
• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries is a plus.

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Compensation & benefits

• Salary range: $52,000 - $91,000 annually (applies to Burlington, MA location; applicable range may differ if the role is performed outside the primary location).
• Eligible employees may participate in a comprehensive benefits program including retirement plan options, medical/dental/vision coverage, life and disability insurance, paid time off, employee assistance resources, and performance-based incentive opportunities.
• This is a contract and/or full-time opportunity (employment type may vary by candidate and engagement).

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About the role & team

This position is part of an IT-focused quality and platform engineering function supporting product teams with automated test execution, environment provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and release activities. The role offers accelerated learning in cloud automation, release engineering, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and quality engineering best practices while working with experienced engineers and cross-functional stakeholders.

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Location & legal notices

• Work location: Burlington, MA (on-site or hybrid depending on client needs).
• This posting follows all applicable U.S. and Massachusetts hiring laws. The employer will consider qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.
• Salary transparency: the range above is provided for the Burlington, MA location per the source posting.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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