Infrastructure Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $110/hr

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.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

- Upload resume

- AI interview based on your resume

- Submit form

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