AWS Subject Matter Expert

Summary

Join Gruntwork as an SME Contractor and contribute to the maintenance and development of their OpenTofu IaC code library. This part-time, flexible role focuses on Kubernetes and networking expertise within AWS. Responsibilities include resolving customer tickets, updating GitHub issues, maintaining modules, and contributing to open-source projects. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes, and AWS, along with strong communication and software engineering skills. The position offers a flexible schedule and hourly pay, averaging 15-30 hours per week. A paid contracting trial period is included in the interview process.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in writing Terraform/OpenTofu modules
• Experience testing infrastructure as code
• Strong background in software engineering, with 5+ years of experience
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes, and EKS in particular
• Extensive experience writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/OpenTofu
• Strong communication skills in English and are comfortable engaging with external customers
• Interested in working a flexible number of hours that averages ~15 hours/week
• Respond to support and maintenance requests within a 1-2 business day SLA
• Hate doing the same thing twice and would rather spend the time to automate a problem away than do the same work again

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain OpenTofu IaC code within the Kubernetes and Networking subject matter expertise
• 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
• Contribute to our open source projects, including Terragrunt, Terratest, cloud-nuke, bash-commons, boilerplate and more

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Terragrunt is a plus
• Ability to write Golang and Bash is a nice to have!

Benefits

• Flexible hours
• Hourly pay
• Paid Contracting Trial period