Lalpur, Ranchi has a part-time opening for a Junior Docker Engineer, on-site, paying INR 21,500 a month. This is an entry-level slot on a small cloud and DevOps team, built for someone early in their containerization career rather than someone with years of production infrastructure experience.
The basics on who fits
A bachelor's degree is the floor here, and the department isn't picky about the exact major as long as it's grounded in computing, IT, or something close enough that the fundamentals transfer. Nine months of hands-on experience is what the team wants to see, which usually means someone who's already worked with containers in an internship, a smaller job, or a serious self-driven project, not just someone who read about Docker.
Since this is part-time and on-site, scheduling flexibility matters more than it would for a standard full-time seat. Anyone juggling a degree program alongside this role, or coming off another part-time commitment, should be upfront about their available hours during the interview so the team can plan accordingly.
Day-to-day work
- Building and maintaining Docker images for the applications the team supports, and keeping them lean rather than bloated
- Setting up and managing containerized environments across development and staging, making sure configs stay consistent between them
- Handling basic orchestration tasks, mostly around keeping containers scheduled correctly and restarting cleanly when something fails
- Monitoring container and system performance, and flagging anything that looks off before it turns into a bigger problem
- Responding to infrastructure incidents during scheduled hours, working through them methodically rather than guessing
A recent example from the team: a container kept restarting every few minutes because of a memory limit set too tight for a batch job that ran once a day. It looked like a crash-loop bug for a while, until someone checked the resource limits against what the job needed at peak. That's fairly typical of junior-level troubleshooting here; the fix is often small once you find it, but finding it takes patience.
Required skills
Solid working knowledge of Docker is the core requirement, along with a real understanding of containerization concepts beyond just running Docker commands from memory. Some exposure to orchestration basics, even at a Kubernetes-101 level, is expected, and comfort in a Linux environment is non-negotiable since almost everything here runs on it.
Bonus skills
Familiarity with a CI/CD tool like Jenkins or GitLab CI is genuinely useful, since a chunk of the automation work touches deployment pipelines. Some scripting ability in Bash or Python helps too, mostly for small automation tasks rather than heavy development work. And prior exposure to a cloud provider's console, AWS or Azure, either one, gives a head start even without deep hands-on experience there yet.
Pay and what comes with it
The role pays INR 21,500 a month on a part-time basis. Benefits include pro-rated paid leave scaled to the part-time schedule, flexible in-office scheduling that works around other commitments, and performance-based incentives tied to individual and team performance. Since it's on-site and Ranchi's tech hiring pool is still fairly compact, the employer also offers relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving in from elsewhere.
Team context
Naukri Mitra is posting this on behalf of a DevOps team that's kept things intentionally small in Lalpur, which means a junior hire here isn't buried under six layers of process before touching real infrastructure. Ranchi doesn't have the same density of DevOps roles as some of the bigger tech hubs, so this kind of part-time, structured entry point is a genuinely useful way in for someone building a career in the space locally rather than relocating early.
Anyone applying should be ready to walk through a container or deployment issue they've actually debugged, even a small one from a personal project, since that tends to say more than a certification list. Both local Ranchi candidates and people open to relocating with the offered support are welcome to apply, and we're scheduling interviews as applications come in.
