Contractor AWS Subject Matter Expert

About Gruntwork:

Gruntwork is on a mission to transform the way DevOps is done. Let’s face it: designing, launching, and managing infrastructure is still a terrible experience for most organizations, but it doesn’t have to be that way!

We are globally recognized both for our open source tools used by thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500s, and our thought leadership on how DevOps should be done.

About this role:

The SME Contractor is primarily focused on writing/maintaining our OpenTofu IaC code library within the contractor’s area of “subject matter expertise.” The role is intended to be a very flexible part time role, tickets are assigned and generally have a 1-3 day SLA, so there’s flexibility as to when work gets done.

• You’re very comfortable with AWS, and feel you are an expert on a certain subset of AWS’s services, such as networking, databases, security etc.
• You’re familiar with testing OpenTofu code with tools like terratest or the built in tofu test capability.
• You’re very organized, comfortable working independently.
• You’re comfortable acting as a tech lead, running projects, tracking work in a tool like Jira or Linear and communicating with other team members to ensure broader objectives are met.

This is a mid-level contractor position, paid based on an hourly rate. We expect an average of ~10-15 hours of work per week up to 25 hours (based on your availability and skill level) however, you have the ability to control when you work (a great perk of contracting is flex time!).

For candidates in North America Only — Although you would start as a contractor, this role sets up a path to full-time employment with Gruntwork when future positions open up, if that’s of interest to you.

What you’ll work on:

• The Infrastructure as Code library - The Gruntwork Library contains over 300K lines of reusable, battle-tested, production-ready infrastructure code for AWS.
• World Class Customer Support
  • Part of your role will include participating in business-hours only support within your specific subject matter expertise area to:
    • Help resolve customer tickets and knowledge base posts
    • Keep GitHub issues and external PRs up to date
    • Ensure modules are kept up to date with 3rd party tool releases
    • Help create and maintain a clean GitHub Project backlog
    • Teach Gruntwork and DevOps best-practices
    • Automate and document solutions so that problems are mitigated for future users
• Open Source
  • Contribute to our open source projects, including Terragrunt, Terratest, cloud-nuke, bash-commons, boilerplate and more

Qualifications for Success:

• Deep expertise in writing Terraform/OpenTofu modules. Familiarity with Terragrunt is a plus.
• Experience testing infrastructure as code.
• You have a strong background in software engineering, with 5+ years of experience.
• You have deep expertise within a domain of AWS, such as VPC/Networking and Route 53.
• You have extensive experience writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform..
• You have strong communication skills in English and are comfortable engaging with external customers.
• You're interested in working a flexible number of hours that averages ~15 hours/week.
• You can respond to support and maintenance requests within a 1-2 business day SLA.
• You hate doing the same thing twice and would rather spend the time to automate a problem away than do the same work again.
• Ability to write Golang and Bash is a nice to have!