Senior Infrastructure Engineer – AWS / MWAA 6-month contract | Remote in NA | C2C We’re working with a major media and entertainment company looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their Infrastructure team on a 6-month contract. The primary focus of the role is the modernisation of their AWS MWAA (Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow) platform, alongside AWS infrastructure monitoring and service quota management.
Responsibilities Configure, maintain and operate production AWS MWAA environments. Support the migration from current Airflow versions to Airflow 3.x, including assessing DAG and provider compatibility and resolving breaking changes.
Manage
Airflow DAGs, dependencies and production workflows. Plan and execute platform upgrades and production migrations with minimal disruption to existing workflows. Monitor AWS service quotas and identify capacity or configuration requirements.
Manage AWS infrastructure, including IAM and related platform configuration. Build automation and monitoring integrations using Python.
Implement infrastructure changes through Terraform and/or AWS CDK rather than manual configuration.
Work with adjacent engineering teams to coordinate testing, validation and production rollout. Ensure infrastructure changes are documented, auditable and reproducible.
Required experience Strong hands-on experience with AWS MWAA and Apache Airflow in production.
Experience with Airflow major-version migrations, ideally including migration to Airflow 3.x. Strong AWS infrastructure engineering experience.
Experience with Airflow workplace configuration, DAG management and dependency management. Terraform and/or AWS CDK experience. Python experience for automation, monitoring or infrastructure tooling.
Experience planning and executing production platform migrations. Comfortable working independently on infrastructure changes and coordinating with multiple engineering teams.