Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS

SOUM; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SOUM is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate scalable, resilient infrastructure across environments. You will own CI/CD, IaC, monitoring stacks, and security for mission-critical systems in a fast-growing startup.

You will collaborate across teams to ensure high availability, optimized costs, and robust incident response, with a focus on automation and reliability. This role offers opportunities to shape the platform in a dynamic e-commerce landscape.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of DevOps on production applications.
• Minimum 1 year working with Terraform.
• Minimum 1 year working with infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Experience in designing and architecting high performing applications.
• Experience in agile development practices.
• Experience in a fast growing startup is a plus.
• AWS certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the scalability, stability and availability of our low-latency and mission-critical systems.
• Enhance the CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.
• Generate and maintain Helm manifests for Kubernetes.
• Maintain our Infrastructure as Code.
• Set up and maintain monitoring via New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Debug infrastructure and detect bottlenecks.
• Take responsibility for the company-wide tech infrastructure across all environments.
• Manage VPN, load balancers and firewalls.
• Take responsibility for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Implement secure and stable infrastructure.
• Drive continuous improvement and cost optimization.
• Take responsibility for 24x7 monitoring, resolving infrastructure-tier incidents and escalating to upper tiers where necessary.
• Investigate incidents and produce clear incident report documentation.

Skills

GCP & AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Infra setup

EKS

Terraform

GitOps

ArgoCD

Security

Tools

GitHub Actions

New Relic

Prometheus

Grafana

Helm

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

SOUM is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate scalable, resilient infrastructure across environments. You will own CI/CD, IaC, monitoring stacks, and security for mission-critical systems in a fast-growing startup.

You will collaborate across teams to ensure high availability, optimized costs, and robust incident response, with a focus on automation and reliability. This role offers opportunities to shape the platform in a dynamic e-commerce landscape.