Senior DevOps Engineer (Freelance / Part-Time)

About 10 Speed10 Speed is a SaaS startup building a modern Transportation Management System (TMS). We are on a mission to revolutionize the trucking industry with a scalable, multi-tenant platform that empowers transportation companies to manage their operations with unprecedented efficiency. Our team is small, agile, and passionate about building a world-class product that solves real-world problems for our customers. We believe in a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning. As an early member of our team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape our product, our culture, and our company's future.

The RoleWe are looking for our first dedicated DevOps Engineer to join our team as a part-time freelancer. This is a unique opportunity to take full ownership of our cloud infrastructure, define our DevOps culture from the ground up, and play a critical role in ensuring the scalability and reliability of our platform as we grow. You will be the go-to expert for all things infrastructure, responsible for improving our sophisticated AWS environment, automating our CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring our systems are secure, efficient, and cost-effective.

What You'll DoOwn and evolve our multi-account, multi-region AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, DynamoDB, and OpenSearchDrive the improvement and automation of our CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to ensure fast, reliable, and safe deploymentsLead our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy, using Terraform for tenant provisioning and AWS SAM/CloudFormation for application deploymentsBuild and enhance our monitoring and observability stack (Sentry, CloudWatch, X-Ray) to ensure we can proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact customersChampion security and compliance across the platform by implementing and enforcing best practices for access control, data encryption, and network securityCollaborate closely with the development team to streamline the developer experience and architect applications for scalability and resilienceManage and automate our complex multi-tenant architecture, ensuring strict tenant isolation and efficient resource allocationRequirementsWhat You'll BringA proven track record with 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roleStrong hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with a willingness to work deeply within our AWS environment.

You should be comfortable with core concepts like serverless computing, relational/NoSQL databases, and virtual networkingSolid experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormationProven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (e. g.

, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)A solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker)Proficiency in a scripting language, preferably PythonA proactive and autonomous work ethic, with a passion for taking ownership and driving projects from concept to completionExcellent communication skills in English and a collaborative mindsetNice to HaveDirect experience with specific AWS services like Lambda, Aurora, Chalice, and QuickSightExperience managing multi-tenant SaaS platformsKnowledge of database administration and optimization (MySQL, OpenSearch)BenefitsWhat We OfferFlexible, remote work with a results-oriented culture.

We are open to engaging with you either as a long-term freelance contractor or as a part-time employeeA pivotal role with high impact: Be the first dedicated DevOps hire and shape the foundation of our infrastructure and companyA collaborative and supportive team that values learning, growth, and open communicationThe potential to transition to a full-time role as our company scalesOur Tech StackCloud: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Aurora, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, IoT Core, QuickSight)IaC: Terraform, AWS SAM, CloudFormationCI/CD: GitHub ActionsContainers: Docker, ECRBackend: Python, AWS Chalice, SQLAlchemyMonitoring: Sentry, CloudWatch, X-RayAuthentication: AWS Cognito, Auth0