Senior Platform Engineer

Artha Nexgen; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

Artha Nexgen is seeking an experienced contractor to apply cloud infrastructure and platform engineering expertise to train next-generation AI systems. You will create Reinforcement Learning environments that test a model’s ability to design, deploy, troubleshoot, secure, scale, and recover production-grade cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities include building reproducible, containerized environments, defining measurable requirements, and developing deterministic tests for integration, load,

Qualifications

• Senior-level cloud infrastructure or SRE experience with ownership of a production platform.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, queues, autoscaling, and durable storage.
• Experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
• Familiarity with observability, SLOs, rolling deployments, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments.

Responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Distributed systems

Observability

SLOs

Autoscaling

IAM security

Containerized apps

Automation tools

Disaster recovery

Infra scripting

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Multi-cloud infra

Job description

This job requires a minimum of 3 years of experience.

About the Job

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

In this role, you'll apply your cloud infrastructure and platform engineering expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world engineering input. No prior experience in AI is required—your domain knowledge and hands-on production experience are what matter.

As an expert, you will create Reinforcement Learning Environments that test an AI model’s ability to design, deploy, troubleshoot, secure, scale, and recover production-grade cloud infrastructure. You will develop realistic scenarios involving distributed systems, networking, IAM, queues, durable storage, observability, rolling deployments, and disaster recovery, then build reproducible environments, deterministic validation tests, golden reference solutions, and intentionally defective variants.

Responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Senior-level cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE experience, including personal 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, or multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, edge infrastructure, or shared platform services.
• Experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, local cloud emulators, or resilience testing.
• Experience creating technical evaluations, automated grading systems, or AI environments is helpful but not required.

Compensation Structure

Compensation is output-based; experts are paid per task that meets the project specifications. The time required to complete work may vary depending on the expert’s experience and workflow. Minimum submission requirements apply. Experts must submit a minimum of tasks per week.

Start Timeline & Availability

We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts ready to jump in right away. If selected, we expect you to start your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.