At WASSHA, we light up peoples lives. We aim to help the truly disadvantaged and challenged groups of our society by providing them with affordable options for lighting. You will enable children to study after dark, small stores to stay open longer, and fishermen to improve the size of their catch at night. Our service consists of custom-built third party hardware, in-house systems and third party APIs.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will help grow, improve, and maintain the infrastructure and automation underlying our existing services, as well as shape our future by developing new infrastructure capabilities for WASSHA. This particular role will have a heavy focus on setting up, maintaining, and supporting the port of our existing, legacy services, to a new Kubernetes cluster located in a newly created organization account.

Details

• Location: Remote (any jurisdiction where you have permission to work)
• Position: type Full-Time
• Job Category: DevOps Engineer
• Experience Level: Medior/Senior
• Department: Software Engineering
• Reports: to Director of Software Engineering
• Team Size: ~2 people

You Would Be Interested In the Role If You

• Believe in shipping high quality infrastructure that is readable, testable, maintainable, and continuously integrated via small, safe deployments.
• Want to take on the challenge of providing infrastructure configured with Terraform for our teams to run their services on.
• Want to create Terraform modules and standardised processes configured via code for everything ranging from CICD to project setup and repository creation.
• Want to own and operate a multi-account organization in AWS, with workloads running on EKS.
• Enjoy collaborating and growing together with engineering peers.
• Enjoy contributing to positive engineering culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and participating in technical discussions within the team
• Believe in following best practises such as knowledge sharing and data driven decision-making.

• 7+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer, and preferably a master's degree in computer science or a relevant field.
• General familiarity with serving and configuring RDS and other database technologies.
• Working understanding of SRE related topics and their practical application.
• “You build it, you run it” attitude: experience managing services end-to-end, from developing to deploying to monitoring and incident support.
• Passion for working in an agile, cross-functional team, iterating quickly during the product development cycle. Furthermore, the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, product managers, and engineering peers.
• Desire to have a positive impact on our users by continuous improvement and optimisation.
• Familiarity with AWS, containers, Kubernetes, Bazel and Terraform is a must.

The following would give you an edge when evaluating similar candidates.

Additional Language Skills

• Japanese, we are a Japanese company, and a lot of our knowledge base is still written in Japanese.
• Swahili, French, Portuguese, as our customer base is located in countries using these languages.

Other Skills And Interests

• Project management
• Product ownership
• Technical product management
• An interest in Africa and a willingness to potentially travel there for business purposes.

*** THIS IS A FULLY REMOTE POSITION AND DOES NOT INCLUDE RELOCATION