Senior Cloud Platform Architect (Remote)

SaidGig; New York (NY); Remote; USD 83,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

SaidGig seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design production-grade cloud environments for evaluating AI system architectures. This remote contractor role emphasizes hands-on work in distributed systems, IAM, observability, and disaster recovery across multi-cloud platforms.

You will build reproducible containerized environments, define runtime requirements, and write automation or testing tools. Expect flexible, task-based workloads with rapid onboarding.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in technical architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE, including ownership of a production platform.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure scenarios.
• Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
• Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language.
• Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, multi-cloud infrastructure, internal developer platforms, edge infrastructure, shared platform services, chaos engineering, fault injection, local cloud emulators, resilience testing, technical evaluations, automated grading systems, or AI environments is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Create cloud infrastructure tasks covering distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop scenarios involving IAM, queues, durable storage, observability, rolling deployments, and disaster recovery.
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements for infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
• Create deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

SRE/DevOps

Terraform/OpenTofu

AWS/Azure/GCP

Kubernetes

Chaos engineering

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

SaidGig seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design production-grade cloud environments for evaluating AI system architectures. This remote contractor role emphasizes hands-on work in distributed systems, IAM, observability, and disaster recovery across multi-cloud platforms.

You will build reproducible containerized environments, define runtime requirements, and write automation or testing tools. Expect flexible, task-based workloads with rapid onboarding.