Cloud Engineer for AI Coding Agents (Remote)

Mercor; Dublin; Remote; EUR 86,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote contract role

Competitive hourly rate

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for a remote contract role. You will work with frontier AI coding agents to support complex infrastructure tasks across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability.

The role emphasizes evaluating model-generated infrastructure, ensuring reliability, and applying engineering judgment to real-world scenarios. This is a remote contract opportunity with competitive pay per task and flexible collaboration.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or observability tooling.
• Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
• Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess their strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Kubernetes & Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

AI coding agents familiarity

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Windsurf

Gemini CLI

Job description

Mercor is seeking a DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for a remote contract role. You will work with frontier AI coding agents to support complex infrastructure tasks across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability.

The role emphasizes evaluating model-generated infrastructure, ensuring reliability, and applying engineering judgment to real-world scenarios. This is a remote contract opportunity with competitive pay per task and flexible collaboration.