[Hiring] Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Consultant @Inflect

Role Description

Inflect is engaging an independent Sr. DevOps & Infrastructure Consultant (Prestador de Servicios Independiente) in Mexico through Rippling (acting as a Contractor of Record) to architect, deliver, and maintain critical cloud platform components. This is an autonomous, high-impact B2B consulting engagement focused on production reliability, platform substrate engineering, and observability pipelines.

Working as an external subject matter expert, your company will provide high-level technical guidance and infrastructure delivery for Inflect's AWS EKS environment, ensuring our platform runs with high availability, efficiency, and automated resilience.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) operating on AWS EKS, RDS, ingress controllers, TLS certificate automation.
• Proven track record defining SLOs/SLIs, establishing error budget frameworks, and building automation to drive down system toil.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating OpenTelemetry collection and routing pipelines.
• Fluent professional English communication skills for effective cross-border async collaboration and code review advisory.

Requirements

• Deliver and maintain Terraform modules on AWS EKS, managed RDS instances, ingress controllers, and cost optimization architectures.
• Establish SLO/SLI tracking frameworks, automate error budget monitoring, participate in post-incident technical reviews, and build automated tooling to reduce operational friction.
• Architect and maintain the OpenTelemetry capture pipeline feeding telemetry data to downstream Data Foundation and Trust & Intelligence pods.
• Provide specialized code reviews, pull-request assessments, and technical architecture recommendations to maintain high platform standards.
• Develop reusable platform patterns and automated CI/CD tooling to streamline developer deployment workflows.
• Define Operating model and reflect via Global Runbook inclusive of SOP’s, regional coordination, and issue remediation/management.

Benefits

• Location: Mexico
• Contract Type: Fixed-rate monthly Independent B2B Service Agreement executed via Rippling, $6,000-$8,000 USD/mo based on experience.
• Complete flexibility over work schedules, location, and execution methods necessary to fulfill project SLAs and agreed milestones.

Engagement Terms & Compliance Structure

• Contractor must be registered with the SAT (e.g., RESICO or Persona Física con Actividad Empresarial) and issue valid CFDI invoices uploaded through Rippling.
• Strictly B2B consulting engagement; no employment relationship under the Federal Labor Law (LFT), Aguinaldo (Christmas bonus), profit sharing (PTU), or employee benefit guarantees are implied.