Freelance Director of Engineering: RabbitMQ & Kubernetes Lead

Wealth Partners Corp; Frederick (MD); On-site; USD 189,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Freelance arrangement

On-site role in Frederick, MD

Competitive salary

Job summary

Wealth Partners Corp in Frederick, MD seeks a freelance Director of Engineering fluent in RabbitMQ to own hands-on architecture and drive high-throughput systems. You will lead critical infra work across Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible, guiding teams and stakeholders while delivering reliable, scalable platforms for our business.

This role offers a competitive annual salary between $189,000 and $255,000, with direct impact on performance, reliability, and cross-functional project

Qualifications

• Ability to handle complex infra with minimal surprises.
• Hands-on engineering experience with strong debugging skills.
• Proactive mentoring and teamwork mindset.

Responsibilities

• Decode the undocumented Docker service nobody at Wealth Partners remembers writing.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Wealth Partners workloads.
• Design RabbitMQ APIs other Frederick, MD teams will still thank you for next year.
• Replace the brittle Emotional Intelligence hack with a Kubernetes solution that survives Frederick scale.
• Apply Terraform and Kubernetes to solve hands-dirty engineering challenges.
• Map data flow across Wealth Partners’s Ansible services and spot the leaks.
• Walk technology stakeholders through Docker tradeoffs in language Wealth Partners execs grasp.
• Stand up observability so Wealth Partners sees failures before customers in MD do.

Skills

Reliability

Hands-on engineering

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Freelance adeptness

Tools

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

SQL databases

Job description

Wealth Partners Corp in Frederick, MD seeks a freelance Director of Engineering fluent in RabbitMQ to own hands-on architecture and drive high-throughput systems. You will lead critical infra work across Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible, guiding teams and stakeholders while delivering reliable, scalable platforms for our business.

This role offers a competitive annual salary between $189,000 and $255,000, with direct impact on performance, reliability, and cross-functional project