Infrastructure Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $110/hr

mercor; United States; À distance; USD 103 000 - 152 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mercor in the United States is seeking a Cloud / DevOps Engineer (Infra & IaC) for remote contract work. You will support AI research teams by maintaining cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, and IaC pipelines to ensure scalable, reliable deployments.

The role requires hands-on experience with Terraform or AWS CDK, AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB), and building CI/CD workflows. You will diagnose cluster issues, contribute to design guidelines, and clearly communicate complex

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional cloud infrastructure/DevOps experience.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes experience, diagnosing cluster failures.
• IaC production experience with Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
• Experience integrating AWS services in production (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB).
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong written communication to explain technical decisions.

Responsabilités

• Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, and IaC topics.
• Design tasks and write accurate solutions for cluster diagnosis, AWS service integration, and infrastructure automation problems.
• Evaluate infrastructure tasks and provide clear, written feedback.
• Develop guidelines and rubrics to assess cluster failure diagnosis, IaC design quality, and CI/CD reasoning.
• Collaborate with SMEs to ensure training data accuracy.

Connaissances

Cloud infra & DevOps

Kubernetes ops

CI/CD pipelines

AWS services familiar

IaC tooling

Written communication

Outils

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS CDK

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

Description du poste

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: Cloud / DevOps Engineer (Infra & IaC) Type: Contract Compensation: $75–$110/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in cloud infrastructure , Kubernetes operations , and Infrastructure-as-Code topics.
• Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks, and write accurate and well-structured solutions to cluster diagnosis , AWS service integration , and infrastructure automation problems.
• Evaluate infrastructure engineering tasks and solutions and provide clear, written technical feedback.
• Develop guidelines and detailed rubrics/evaluation frameworks to assess cluster failure diagnosis , IaC design quality , and CI/CD pipeline reasoning across tasks.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 4+ years of dedicated professional experience in cloud infrastructure , DevOps , site reliability , or platform engineering .
• Hands-on production experience operating Kubernetes , including diagnosing and repairing cluster failures.
• Production experience with Infrastructure-as-Code , specifically Terraform and/or AWS CDK .
• Direct experience integrating AWS services in production, including Lambda , API Gateway , and DynamoDB .
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines .
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly.