Sr. DevOps & Infrastructure Consultant (remote - Argentina)

Engagement Overview Inflect is engaging an independent Sr. DevOps & Infrastructure Consultant ( Locador de Servicios ) based in Argentina through Rippling (acting as a Contractor of Record) to architect, deliver, and maintain critical cloud platform components. This is an autonomous, high-impact consulting engagement focused on production reliability, platform substrate engineering, and observability pipelines. Working as an external subject matter expert, you 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. Who We Are We are a US-based advisory and marketplace that is revolutionizing the way companies buy and sell digital infrastructure (Datacenter, cloud, and network services), and we’re extremely proud of that. Digital infrastructure services are the building blocks of the internet and at the core of every industry. Traditionally it’s been bought manually through service provider sales people, resulting in high costs, slow procurement cycles, and services that aren’t the best fit - slowing down the ability of companies to build and innovate. Inflect’s marketplace and advisory are removing friction so any company can get what they need, when they need it, with the right deal terms. By achieving our mission, we unlock businesses to build and human innovation to inflect ! Specialized Technical Capabilities Required Infrastructure & Platform Substrate: Deep expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) operating on AWS EKS, RDS, ingress controllers, and TLS certificate automation, in addition to implementing cloud cost/capacity tuning. Production Reliability & SRE Rigor: Proven track record defining SLOs/SLIs, establishing error budget frameworks, and building automation to drive down system toil. Telemetry Architecture: Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating OpenTelemetry collection and routing pipelines. Async Communication & Advisory: Fluent professional English communication skills for effective cross-border async collaboration and code review advisory. Scope of Services & Deliverables Platform Substrate & Infrastructure: Deliver and maintain Terraform modules on AWS EKS, managed RDS instances, ingress controllers, and cost optimization architectures. SRE & Reliability Standards: Establish SLO/SLI tracking frameworks, automate error budget monitoring, participate in post-incident technical reviews, and build automated tooling to reduce operational friction. Telemetry Pipeline Architecture: Architect and maintain the OpenTelemetry capture pipeline feeding telemetry data to downstream Data Foundation and Trust & Intelligence pods. Technical Advisory & Review: Provide specialized code reviews, pull-request assessments, and technical architecture recommendations to maintain high platform standards. Paved Road Enablement: 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. Engagement Terms & Compliance Structure Location: Argentina Contract Type: Fixed-rate monthly Independent Service Agreement executed via Rippling, $6,000-$8000 USD/mo depending on experience Invoicing & Tax Compliance: Contractor must be registered with AFIP/ARCA ( Monotributo or Régimen General ) and upload valid electronic Facturas into Rippling. Autonomy: Complete flexibility over work schedules, location, and execution methods necessary to fulfill project SLAs and agreed milestones Commercial Relationship: Strictly B2B consulting engagement; no employment relationship or employee benefit guarantees implied