We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced AWS Cloud Engineers with strong hands-on expertise in serverless architecture, event-driven systems, infrastructure as code, and multi-service AWS environments.
This role focuses on evaluating technical tasks involving AWS serverless applications and infrastructure-as-code implementations for correctness, architectural quality, reproducibility, and cross-service integration. Selected engineers will review cloud designs, permissions, failure handling, deployment definitions, and testing approaches while providing clear, rubric-based technical feedback.
Key Responsibilities
AWS Serverless Architecture
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Review multi-service serverless applications built on AWS
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Assess architecture involving Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams, S3, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, and Step Functions
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Evaluate service selection, integration patterns, and architectural trade-offs
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Identify incorrect assumptions or weaknesses in serverless designs
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Assess whether implementations follow sound cloud architecture principles
Infrastructure as Code
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Review infrastructure definitions built with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or SAM
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Assess whether infrastructure code accurately represents the intended architecture
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Identify configuration errors, missing resources, or incorrect dependencies
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Evaluate deployment structure and infrastructure reproducibility
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Review IaC implementations for consistency and technical correctness
Event-Driven Systems
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Evaluate event-driven architectures spanning multiple AWS services
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Review event sources, routing, triggers, subscriptions, and downstream processing
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Assess asynchronous workflows for correctness and resilience
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Identify broken integration patterns or unintended event behaviour
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Evaluate whether service interactions reflect realistic AWS behaviour
IAM & Security Boundaries
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Review IAM roles, policies, and permission boundaries
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Assess whether services receive appropriate access without unnecessary privileges
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Identify missing, excessive, or incorrectly scoped permissions
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Evaluate cross-service authentication and authorisation requirements
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Apply practical AWS security principles when reviewing task implementations
Failure, Retry & Recovery Behaviour
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Assess failure-handling and retry semantics across serverless workflows
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Review dead-letter queues, retry policies, timeouts, and asynchronous failure paths
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Identify scenarios that could cause duplicate processing, lost events, or uncontrolled retries
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Evaluate idempotency and recovery considerations
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Assess whether failure behaviour matches actual AWS service semantics
Testing & Local Emulation
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Review testing strategies for AWS serverless applications
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Evaluate local development and emulation approaches using tools such as LocalStack
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Identify behavioural differences between emulated environments and real AWS services
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Assess whether local tests provide sufficient confidence in production behaviour
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Review integration and end-to-end testing approaches
Cross-Service Integration
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Evaluate integrations between compute, storage, messaging, API, and orchestration services
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Review resource dependencies and service configuration
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Identify mismatches between infrastructure definitions and application behaviour
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Assess data flow across multi-service architectures
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Determine whether integrations function correctly under realistic conditions
Observability & Operational Quality
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Review logging, monitoring, tracing, and operational visibility where relevant
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Assess whether serverless workloads can be effectively diagnosed in production
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Identify missing observability or operational safeguards
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Evaluate performance and scalability considerations
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Review opportunities for serverless cost optimisation where applicable
Rubric-Based Technical Evaluation
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Assess assigned cloud engineering tasks against structured technical criteria
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Provide clear written explanations supporting evaluation decisions
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Reference specific architectural, infrastructure, or implementation evidence
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Apply grading standards consistently across assignments
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Distinguish substantive cloud architecture problems from reasonable alternative designs
Ideal Profile
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3+ years of hands-on experience building multi-service AWS serverless applications
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Strong professional experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SNS/SQS, and Step Functions
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Strong experience with infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or SAM
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Deep understanding of event-driven architecture
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Strong knowledge of IAM permissions and security boundaries
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Experience designing and evaluating failure, retry, and recovery behaviour in distributed systems
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Familiarity with LocalStack or comparable local AWS testing approaches
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Ability to distinguish local emulation behaviour from actual AWS service behaviour
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Strong cloud architecture, debugging, and technical review skills
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AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or Developer are advantageous
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Experience with serverless observability and cost optimisation is preferred
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Previous code-review or technical task-grading experience is advantageous
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Strong written communication and ability to provide precise technical feedback
Engagement Details
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Part-time independent contractor engagement
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Fully remote within the United States
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Flexible scheduling based on project requirements
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Compensation: $60–$80/hour
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Work focuses on AWS serverless architecture, infrastructure as code, event-driven systems, integration correctness, and technical quality evaluation
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Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance
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Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party
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H1-B and STEM OPT support is unavailable for this engagement
About the Platform
This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.
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