Remote Cloud Engineer - AI-Driven DevOps/SRE

mercor; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 86,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability tools

AI coding agents

Job description

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.