Software Engineer (Infrastructure / DevOps)

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.

We recognize the deep-rooted issues of homogeneity in the tech industry and highly encourage people of all backgrounds and life experiences to apply. We're striving to build a product that's accessible and useful for everyone, and firmly believe that diversity within our team is important in that pursuit.

Engineering at Sokanu

We're a small team with a modern and well-maintained tech stack looking to grow as we enter a new stage for the company. We’d prefer hiring on-site in Vancouver, BC (remote during the pandemic) but are open to remote hires within Canada for the right fit. See our core values to learn more about what it means to be an engineer at Sokanu.

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