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

24-MAG LLC is offering a part-time consulting opportunity for experienced DevOps and platform engineering professionals. The role involves evaluating CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and providing technical feedback on production-grade engineering 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

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
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field is helpful
• Equivalent professional experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or production systems is also highly relevant
• 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