Remote AWS DevOps Engineer (Freelancer) Job at Mactores
Job Overview
Mactores is hiring a remote candidate for AWS DevOps Engineer (Freelancer). This is a contract position. Work location: USA.
The role typically involves technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Go, AWS, Azure.
Key Responsibilities
- Automate infrastructure creation using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Run application configuration management and enable Infrastructure as Code through deployment tools.
- Own and manage the build and release cycle for customer projects.
- Share responsibility for deploying releases and other operations and maintenance activities.
- Improve operations infrastructure: Jenkins clusters, Bitbucket, monitoring tools (Consul), and metrics tools like Graphite and Grafana.
- Provide operational support for the engineering team and help migrate legacy infrastructure to the cloud.
- Establish and enforce operational best practices, including monitoring for automated system health checks.
- Build scalable infrastructure for data platforms-Amazon EMR, Redshift, and SageMaker.
- Build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.
Required Skills
Primary Skills
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Go
- AWS
- Azure
Secondary Skills
- Linux
- REST
- Agile
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Configuration Management
- DevOps
Skills required for this role include Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and related tools for day-to-day development.
Job Details
- Employment Type: Contract
- Location: USA
- Salary: $25000 – $40000 USD
Tech Stack
Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Go, AWS, Azure, Linux, REST, Agile, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Configuration Management, DevOps
Role details
Mactores is the agent-native AWS modernization firm. Most modernization work doesn't ship, it stalls in pilots, slips a year, or lands at three times the budget. We exist to ship it: production systems running, legacy retired, outcomes measured. Our delivery is built on Aedeon, the agent platform built by Mactores' founders' sister company, which absorbs the repetitive 60–70% of engagement work, discovery, dependency mapping, validation, test generation, that traditional consulting bills human hours against. Forward-deployed engineers own the rest: architecture, judgment, and cutover, on dates we commit to in the contract.
This freelance role sits in our infrastructure modernization work under the Application & Database Modernization pillar: moving legacy infrastructure and large enterprise workloads to AWS, and making the resulting platforms boring to operate. Customers come to us with hand-built environments, release cycles that depend on heroics, and big data workloads that outgrew their monitoring years ago.
You'll work as a hands-on DevOps engineer on customer deployments, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automated monitoring — for enterprise applications, customer applications, and big data workloads. Aedeon absorbs the discovery and validation grind; your billed hours go to the automation and reliability engineering that gets releases out and keeps them out. It's client-facing work: you set customer expectations and then meet them.
What you will do?
What are we looking for?
- 4+ years of experience using Terraform for IaaC.
- 4+ years of configuration management and engineering for large-scale customers, ideally supporting an Agile development process.
- 4+ years of Linux or Windows administration experience.
- 4+ years with version control systems (git), including branching and merging strategies.
- 2+ years of experience working with AWS infrastructure and platform services.
- 2+ years of experience with cloud automation tools (Ansible, Chef).
- Exposure to container services on AWS: Kubernetes, ECS, and EKS.
- A proactive eye for what can be made more reliable — and the follow-through to make it so.
You will be preferred if
- Expertise across multiple cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Associate certification.
- AWS DevOps Professional certification.