AWS DevOps Engineer
Job description
About the role
You own the design and operation of production platforms that transition from pilot to stable production while legacy systems are deliberately retired. Your primary focus is on building reliable, boring platforms on AWS that deliver measurable outcomes rather than stalled modernization initiatives. You are responsible for automation, scaling, and the removal of friction that prevents product teams from moving quickly and safely. Systems thinking is your core skill, and platform teams are ultimately judged by developer velocity and system reliability. You will operate within on-call rotations and maintain a strong understanding of incident response and operational runbooks. This role requires you to translate architectural intent into infrastructure that remains stable under real-world conditions. You will partner closely with delivery teams to ensure technology outcomes align with business impact and contractual commitments.
Key facts
What you'll do
The agent platform handles repetitive discovery and validation tasks, allowing architecture and reliability engineering to concentrate on automated monitoring and infrastructure as code for production stability. You coordinate production changes against committed contract dates, ensuring that AWS modernization promises are fulfilled on schedule without delay. Your billed hours are directed toward automation and reliability engineering that sustains enterprise, customer, and big data workloads in production over the long term. The platform generates test cases and dependency mappings so deployment pipelines provide operational simplicity for modernized workloads on AWS. You implement CI/CD pipelines that enable frequent, low-risk releases while preserving the reliability expected by production-critical customers. Infrastructure as code practices are maintained to ensure environments remain consistent, traceable, and recoverable across all stages of the lifecycle. You apply operational feedback to refine deployment strategies, reduce manual interventions, and improve the resilience of cloud-native services. Collaboration with delivery and platform functions ensures that technology outcomes remain aligned with measurable business results.
Requirements
Freelance remote availability in Mumbai, MH is required to engage on infrastructure modernization work for this role. You must possess hands-on experience deploying enterprise applications, customer applications, and big data workloads on AWS using infrastructure as code and CI/CD methodologies. Strong familiarity with AWS core services, networking, and security controls is essential for designing resilient and scalable solutions. You should be comfortable managing infrastructure through code and automation tools rather than relying on manual console operations. Proven experience with monitoring, logging, and observability practices is necessary to maintain reliable production systems. The ability to work independently and manage your own schedule is required given the remote and freelance nature of the engagement. You must demonstrate an automation mindset that prioritizes consistency, repeatability, and operational clarity. An understanding of incident response and structured troubleshooting is mandatory for success in this client-facing role.
Practical notes
This is client-facing work where you set expectations and then meet them against committed dates in a contractual timeline. The role operates under Application & Database Modernization, moving legacy infrastructure to AWS with an emphasis on operational simplicity and reliability. for exact engagement terms and expectations.
Typical interview steps
Platform interviews usually include an infrastructure scenario, a scripting or coding exercise, and operational questions. Candidates may be asked to design a deployment pipeline or debug an outage. Incident experience and an automation mindset are tested. Interviewers often ask about a past outage and how you handled it. Structured post-incident thinking, not heroics, is what they look for.
Good to know
Platforms manage large volumes of repetitive discovery and validation, allowing human effort to concentrate on architecture and reliability. Modernization work targets production systems in use, retiring legacy platforms and measuring outcomes for business impact. The role relies on infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated monitoring to keep enterprise workloads running smoothly. Tooling emphasizes agent-driven automation to reduce manual repetition and support reliable deployments across cloud environments. Teams collaborate across delivery and platform functions to align technology outcomes with measurable results.
Questions to ask
Useful questions for the interview: what a typical week looks like, how work is assigned, what tools the team uses, and how feedback works. Asking how the role has changed recently and what the team wishes it had known when joining is also reasonable. Questions about the manager's priorities are especially valued.
Career growth
Platform careers grow from engineer to senior, staff, and platform lead roles. Some people move into SRE leadership or cloud architecture. Breadth across networking, storage, and reliability becomes more important at senior levels. Platform careers reward breadth and calm under pressure. Experience automating your own work is the strongest signal for senior roles.
About the company
Mactores is the agent-native AWS modernization firm. We ship AWS modernization to production in weeks, data platforms migrated, legacy applications and databases refactored, AI agents running against real data, for mid-market and lower-enterprise companies in financial services, healthcare and life sciences, internet and software, manufacturing, and TMEGS.