Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

mercor; Netherlands; A distancia; EUR 86.000 - 135.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mercor is offering a remote DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer contract role, focusing on frontier AI coding agents to perform and assess advanced infrastructure tasks. The role emphasizes evaluating model-generated cloud implementations and ensuring reliability across platforms.

Required are 2+ years of DevOps/SRE/Cloud experience and hands-on work with AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should routinely work with AI coding agents and provide solid engineering judgment.

Formación

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

Responsabilidades

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

Conocimientos

DevOps

SRE

Cloud engineering

Herramientas

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability tools

AI coding agents

Descripción del empleo

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position

DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

Type

Contract

Compensation

$85/hour

Location

Remote

Role 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.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 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.

Preferred

• Experience supporting production-scale systems.

Compensation & Legal

$400 per accepted task

Compensation tied to accepted work.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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