Contract Gig: Senior DevOps Engineer (5–15hrs/week)

Truey; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in mobile computing software products is seeking a mid-senior level DevOps Engineer. The role involves engineering tasks related to cloud migration and infrastructure optimization on platforms like DigitalOcean and AWS. Flexible hours and remote work are offered, providing an exciting opportunity to shape core architectural strategies.

Benefits

Quick payment directly with founders

Opportunity to explore new infrastructure tools

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud workload migration with no user impact.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design a migration strategy for headless CMS with zero downtime.
• Improve CI pipelines to ship Docker images in less than 10 minutes.
• Prototype infrastructure switchboard for workload management across clouds.

Skills

Docker

Cloud migration

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Engagement:Direct independent contractor (1099) or invoice from your own single‑member LLC/S‑Corp.We cannot engage via your current employer or any third‑party consultancy.

TL;DR →Help us tame a fleet of ~20 repositories running on DigitalOcean (Apps, Droplets, Databases, Spaces) and Cloudflare (R2, Pages) while charting the green‑field move to AWS. If flaky pipelines, multi‑env CMS migrations, and image‑path versioning puzzles sound like fun, read on.

The Quest

Within your first 90days you will:

•Design a repeatable, zero‑downtime strategy to migrate our headless CMS across staging & prod, keepingcode + data in perfect lock‑step—images included.

•Harden our ad‑hoc CI into a single‑button pipeline that ships Docker images in <10min and alerts on drift.

•Prototype an “infra switchboard” that lets us run workloads side‑by‑side on DigitalOceanandAWS while we migrate traffic.

•Hunt and eliminate the flaky builds/tests that break our weekends.

Current Arena

• DigitalOcean Apps, Droplets, Managed Postgres, Redis, Spaces (S3‑compatible)
• Docker / Compose
• Deployment= freestyle, as‑needed (we’d like your help to civilize this)

Tech You’ll Probably Touch

• Postgres & Redis ops

• Cloudflare Workers

Fun to Explore• AWS CDK

• Nomad or Serverless

You Might Be the One If

• You’ve migrated workloads between cloudswithoutuser impact.
• You treat IaC like code (tests+ reviews) and pipelines like products.
• You enjoy sleuthing weird prod bugs with limited logs.
• 5–15 flexible hoursfit your calendar; async communication is your super‑power.

Why This Gig Rocks

• Leave your mark on big architectural calls.
• Try shiny new infra on our dime (Packer, Dagger, you name it).
• Quick pay, direct with founders.

Logistics

• Remote, any timezone.No fixed overlap required—just reliable async updates.
• Short initial contract with runway to extend.

How to Throw Your Hat In

• The coolest infra migration you’ve done (tweet length).
• A link to a pipeline/Terraform snippet you’re proud of (if public).
• We’ll reply soon—let’s build fun stuff together!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Mobile Computing Software Products

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