Remote | DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineer — $60–$120/hour

24-Mag • New York, NY

6d • $60 - $120 • Remote

About The Position

We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced DevOps and platform engineering professionals with strong backgrounds in CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, containerisation, orchestration, deployment automation, and scalable engineering environments. This role supports current and upcoming remote consulting opportunities focused on DevOps, cloud platform engineering, infrastructure evaluation, technical scenario review, and production-grade engineering workflows. Selected professionals may apply experience across cloud systems, deployment pipelines, container platforms, infrastructure automation, reliability practices, and modern platform engineering environments.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

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
• Competitive hourly compensation in the range of $60–$80/hour, depending on project scope, experience, and fit
• Payments are made weekly via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree