The Role

Sokanu is looking to hire a software engineer to help facilitate the development and maintenance of our infrastructure system while advancing our DevOps culture. We are seeking an experienced software engineer with experience in AWS, Terraform, DevOps and CI/CD. The ideal candidate would be curious, comfortable working autonomously, able to help shape the direction of our infrastructure system and capable of implementing changes across our entire stack. You'd work closely with the rest of our engineering team to help us create a more robust, resilient and flexible system.

Responsibilities

Help plan and build improvements to our existing AWS system

Develop and extend our existing infrastructure as code solution

Help build and maintain our CI/CD pipelines across our various projects

Develop monitoring, alerts, and be part of our Pagerduty rotation

Architect and execute performance and cost improvements for our AWS cloud resources, such as EC2/RDS/Elasticache/ECS

Educate and enable our engineering team to manage infrastructure resources

Wear multiple hats on our engineering team and implement changes on both our infrastructure and Django application

Requirements

4+ years of experience working with AWS, infrastructure as code

Experience maintaining a CI/CD system (we use CircleCI)

Experience working with containerization technologies (we use Docker)

Strong communication skills

Experience working as a software developer on a web application

Nice to Haves

Experience testing infrastructure code

Configuration management experience

Knowledge of cloud and data security

Strong Python skills

Previous experience at a startup

Relevant Tools at Sokanu

AWS, Docker, Terraform Cloud, Datadog, Grafana, CircleCI, Python