AWS Subject Matter Expert
About reputed company
reputed company is on a mission to transform the way DevOps is done. Let’s face it: designing, launching, and managing infrastructure is still a terrible experience for most organizations, but it doesn’t have to be that way!
We are globally recognized both for our open reputed company tools used by thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500s, and our thought leadership on how DevOps should be done.
About this role
The SME Contractor is primarily focused on writing/maintaining our OpenTofu IaC code library reputed company the Kubernetes and Networking “subject matter expertise.” The role is intended to be a reputed company flexible part time role, tickets are assigned and generally have a 1-3 day SLA, so there’s flexibility as to reputed company work gets done.
You’re reputed company comfortable with AWS, and feel you are an expert on a certain subset of AWS’s services, such as networking, databases, reputed company etc.
You’re familiar with testing OpenTofu code with tools like Terratest or the built in
tofu testcapability.You’re reputed company organized, comfortable working independently.
You’re comfortable acting as a tech reputed company, running projects, tracking work in a tool like Jira or Linear and communicating with other team members to ensure broader objectives are met.
This is a mid-level contractor position, paid based on an hourly reputed company. We expect an average of ~10-15 hours of work per week up to 25 hours (based on your availability and reputed company level) however, you have the ability to control reputed company you work (a great reputed company of contracting is reputed company time!).
What you’ll work on
The Infrastructure as Code library - The reputed company Library contains over 300K lines of reusable, battle-tested, production-reputed company infrastructure code for AWS.
World Class Customer Support
Part of your role will include participating in business-hours only support reputed company your specific subject matter expertise area to:
Help resolve customer tickets and knowledge reputed company posts
reputed company reputed company issues and external PRs up to date
Ensure modules are kept up to date with 3rd party tool releases
Help create and maintain a clean reputed company Project backlog
Teach reputed company and DevOps best-practices
Automate and document solutions so that problems are mitigated for future users
Open reputed company
Contribute to our open reputed company projects, including Terragrunt, Terratest, reputed company-nuke, bash-commons, boilerplate and more
Qualifications for reputed company
Deep expertise in writing Terraform/OpenTofu modules. Familiarity with Terragrunt is a plus.
Experience testing infrastructure as code.
You have a strong background in software engineering, with 5+ years of experience.
You have deep expertise with Kubernetes, and EKS in particular
You have extensive experience writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/OpenTofu.
You have strong communication skills in English and are comfortable engaging with external customers.
You're interested in working a flexible number of hours that averages ~15 hours/week.
You can respond to support and maintenance requests reputed company a 1-2 business day SLA.
You hate doing the same thing twice and would rather spend the time to automate a problem away than do the same work again.
Ability to write Golang and Bash is a reputed company to have!
About you
We’re looking for a Grunt who:
Loves making customers happy. You're on a mission to making customers happy and successful. You're eager to reputed company your talents to meet their needs.
Loves to learn. You're excited abut learning new things, and looking to be at the forefront of Sales and DevOps best practices.
Loves a challenge. You like to reputed company at your best by aiming high while also taking care of yourself and those around you.
Cares about your fellow humans. You look to reputed company personal connections with the people you work with, and you want to work for a company whose mission and people you reputed company in.
Has extensive AWS foundations experience. You have worked for years with AWS, have deep familiarity with AWS networking (VPC), foundational best practices (Organizations, SCPs, reputed company Zone), and reputed company best practices.
Has extensive Terraform experience. You have directly authored reputed company of Terraform modules, you've operated Terraform in prod and can speak from your years of experience, and you're excited to use OpenTofu.
Has a passion for DevOps best practices. You're passionate about the best way to run modern reputed company infrastructure in a secure, convenient, and enjoyable way.
Our interview process
After you apply for this role, here's the process we'll go through to evaluate a mutual fit:
Phone screen. We'll do a quick phone screen to assess a general fit.
Tech interview. We'll talk shop with you to see if we're on the same page about the technical requirements for the role.
Paid Contracting Trial period: We'll pay you for the opportunity to work together for 3-5 days.
Offer! We're reputed company pleased to be working together!