[Remote] Remote | DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer — $60–$120/hour
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 24-MAG LLC is offering a part-time consulting opportunity for experienced DevOps and platform engineering professionals. The role involves evaluating CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and providing technical feedback on production-grade engineering workflows.
Responsibilities
- Review CI/CD pipeline logic, deployment workflows, automation practices, release processes, and build systems
- Assess real-world DevOps tasks involving testing workflows, deployment reliability, rollback planning, and infrastructure automation
- Provide structured feedback on technical accuracy, clarity, practical relevance, and production-readiness
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or unclear assumptions in DevOps-related technical scenarios
- Evaluate infrastructure scenarios involving AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or comparable cloud environments
- Review architecture patterns related to scalability, reliability, observability, cost awareness, maintainability, and cloud-native design
- Contribute practical expertise on infrastructure provisioning, environment management, service deployment, and platform workflows
- Assess whether proposed systems reflect realistic cloud and platform engineering practices
- Review tasks involving Docker, Kubernetes, containerised workloads, service deployment, cluster management, and orchestration workflows
- Evaluate scenarios related to container networking, scaling, configuration, resource management, and deployment structure
- Create or refine technical deliverables based on realistic platform engineering use cases
- Identify technical inconsistencies, missing details, or improvement areas in container and orchestration-related materials
- Support the development, review, or refinement of DevOps and platform engineering tasks
- Provide clear technical explanations and feedback based on hands-on engineering experience
- Review technical materials for accuracy, completeness, and practical usability
- Help ensure outputs reflect real-world infrastructure, deployment, and cloud engineering standards
Skills
- Professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related technical roles
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native systems, and production environments
- Strong familiarity with AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, monitoring tools, logging systems, or comparable infrastructure tooling
- Ability to evaluate technical workflows, identify practical issues, and explain engineering reasoning clearly
- Strong written communication skills and comfort working independently in a remote, project-based environment
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field is helpful
- Equivalent professional experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or production systems is also highly relevant
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar tools
- Background in SRE, distributed systems, cloud security, infrastructure reliability, or production incident response
- Experience creating technical documentation, evaluating engineering tasks, or mentoring technical teams
- Familiarity with multi-cloud environments, microservices architecture, observability systems, or large-scale deployment workflows
Benefits
- Flexible, remote consulting work aligned with your DevOps and platform engineering expertise
- Opportunity to contribute to technical projects involving real-world infrastructure and cloud engineering scenarios
- Suitable for experienced professionals who enjoy technical evaluation, structured feedback, and practical engineering problem-solving
- Project-based work that can align with part-time availability and remote schedules
- Independent contractor engagement
- Fully remote and flexible scheduling
- Part-time, project-based availability
- Expected commitment may vary by project, with many opportunities ranging from approximately 15–30 hours per week
- Payments are made weekly via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
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