Remote DevOps Engineer for AI Model Evaluation

mercor; Portugal; Remote; EUR 89,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer with Coding Agent Experience for a remote contract role. You will use frontier AI coding agents to tackle complex infrastructure tasks, review model-generated implementations across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling, and identify issues in model outputs.

The role requires evaluating model-driven infrastructure solutions and applying engineering judgment to realistic scenarios.

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

Cloud Engineering

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Job description

Mercor is seeking a DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer with Coding Agent Experience for a remote contract role. You will use frontier AI coding agents to tackle complex infrastructure tasks, review model-generated implementations across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling, and identify issues in model outputs.

The role requires evaluating model-driven infrastructure solutions and applying engineering judgment to realistic scenarios.