Senior DevOps Engineer (AI Training & IaC)

Outlier; United States; Remote; USD 57,000 - 81,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Job summary

Outlier seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to define how AI learns infrastructure, crafting prompts, configuring LocalStack sandboxes, and building golden solutions with automated end-to-end tests.

Join a remote, freelance opportunity with flexible hours. You will shape IaC tasks for Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation while maintaining high-quality benchmarks for AI-driven infrastructure work.

Qualifications

• Senior-level DevOps/Infrastructure engineer with IaC expertise.
• Hands-on AWS CDK, Terraform or CloudFormation experience.
• Excellent written English and ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Write realistic prompts that read like real engineering tickets for AI models.
• Configure LocalStack sandboxes (AWS mocks) to validate infrastructure tasks.
• Develop a “golden solution” with end-to-end tests for infrastructure.
• Benchmark task quality to ensure high standards and consistency.

Skills

Senior-level DevOps

English communication

Tools

AWS CDK

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

AzureRM

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineers Wanted to Define How AI Learns Infrastructure

Earn up to $50/hr writing Terraform and CloudFormation prompts that become AI's ground truth — remote, flexible hours, no ongoing commitment.

Trusted by 10,000+ software engineers worldwide

LOCATION

Fully Remote

PAY RATE

Up to $50 USD/hr

Earn Up to $50 USD/hr — Plus Additional Incentives

Rates vary based on expertise and project requirements. Paid via ACH, PayPal and AirTM

Remote - United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and 25 more

Choose your own schedule. Most experts spend 5-10 hrs/week, up to 40 hours

Use GPT, Claude, and more — completely free

Over $200/month in AI access, included at no extra cost.

Overview

Outlier works with the world's most innovative companies to improve their AI — using real human expertise, not shortcuts.This project trains AI to master Infrastructure as Code. You'll write realistic prompts that mirror actual engineering tickets, configure LocalStack sandboxes, and build golden solutions with passing end-to-end tests. Tasks run ~3.3 hours each — senior-level work that directly shapes how AI reasons about Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.If Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is second nature to you, your knowledge is exactly what's needed here.

Key Responsibilites

Task Creation: Writing natural language prompts that read like real engineering tickets (including potential ambiguity and professional context) to ensure the AI can handle real-world scenarios.

Environment Configuration: Setting up and configuring LocalStack sandboxes (local AWS mocks) to validate infrastructure tasks.

Golden Solution Development: Crafting the initial infrastructure state and a "golden solution" that includes passing automated end-to-end tests.

Quality Benchmarking: Ensuring tasks meet a high quality bar; simple or poorly formatted tasks will be rejected.

Common Tasks

Choose the right response

You will be given two responses to a question and your task will be to choose the correct response

Response 1

Response 2

Write a prompt

Write simple prompts that will act as a starting point for AI models

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Ideal Qualifications

Seniority: You must be a Senior-level practitioner in DevOps, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering.

IaC Platform Expertise: Professional, hands-on experience with at least one of the following:

High Priority: AWS CDK, Terraform (HCL), or CloudFormation.

Medium/Low Priority: Pulumi, AzureRM, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

Communication: Ability to articulate complex technical concepts fluently in written English, following strict style guidelines.

Currently accepting applicants from:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Canada
• Colombia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• India
• Ireland
• Italy
• Japan
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States

Why Join Outlier

Earn Up to $50 USD/hr— Plus Additional Incentives

On average, contributors earn an additional 7.5% through Missions — Outlier's version of surge pricing. The top quartile boosts their earnings by an average of 11%. **

Future-Proof Your Skills With Real AI Work

Work flexibly from anywhere, anytime - no minimum hours

Free access to leading LLMs — worth $200+/month

Hear from other experts

Read about how MIT PhD Daniel Z earns extra income on Outlier

"Daniel has enjoyed the combination of earning extra cash while contributing to AI development and has made over $4,000 on Outlier".

I view Outlier as a great opportunity for contributors to work flexibly, improve their skills, and earn more money at their own pace. Working with other contributors on Outlier makes the experience even more engaging, offering a perfect mix of collaborating and earning.

India

Code Expert

As an engineer, I often use Al models to get the right answers, but this experience is the opposite: I need to make the models generate wrong answers. It is strange, exciting, and unforgettable.

Cuong N.

Vietnam

Code Expert

The result is fewer tasks returning to the queue for all contributors, higher-quality tasks being completed correctly on the first attempt, and happier contributors thanks to easy access to high-touch, technical support channels.

Canada

Code Expert

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