Remote Cloud Engineer — AI-Powered DevOps & SRE

Mercor

Lisboa

Remote

EUR 89,000 - 121,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Cloud Engineer for a fully remote role to work with frontier AI coding agents on infrastructure tasks. The position emphasizes evaluating model-generated infrastructure across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering, with hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Terraform. This remote, international opportunity offers compensation per accepted task and collaboration with a

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.