AWS Engineer - Istio & Ansible Backend Lead (Flexible Hours)

Energy Innovation Corp; Colorado Springs (CO); Remote; USD 82,000 - 126,000; Part time

Job summary

Content Creation Corp seeks an AWS Engineer with Istio and Ansible experience to transform a large tech stack. The role supports a remote-native freelance team and is based near Colorado Springs, CO. Expect growth, mentorship, and flexible hours while contributing to reliability and deployment excellence.

The position offers $82,000–$126,000 annually, with full benefits and a clear path to expansion as the migration progresses in the Colorado region.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Istio and related tools or frameworks.
• Experience as a mid-level freelancer in software engineering.
• Ability to translate prioritization complexity for a non-technical audience.

Responsibilities

• Slice the metrics-driven technology monolith into Ansible services deployable in Colorado Springs, CO.
• Pull Content Creation Corp's Disaster Recovery stack out of the CO region before the migration deadline.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Ansible and Istio.
• Refactor the technology module Content Creation Corp has been afraid to touch.
• Backfill prioritization test coverage on the riskiest corners of Content Creation Corp's codebase.
• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early.
• Monitor error budgets and prevent overruns in Colorado Springs, CO.

Skills

Istio knowledge

Freelance experience

Mid-level engineer

Backend development

Tools

Ansible

Job description

Content Creation Corp seeks an AWS Engineer with Istio and Ansible experience to transform a large tech stack. The role supports a remote-native freelance team and is based near Colorado Springs, CO. Expect growth, mentorship, and flexible hours while contributing to reliability and deployment excellence.

The position offers $82,000–$126,000 annually, with full benefits and a clear path to expansion as the migration progresses in the Colorado region.