DevOps Engineer

Job Description Job Description 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 Computing Expert Type: Contract Compensation: $55–$75/hour Location: Remote Role Responsibilities Build a realistic digital workspace centered on the Drive folders you use daily.

Include architecture docs, runbooks, RFCs, incident post-mortems, capacity plans, cost reports, SRE review decks, and email threads. Represent platforms like HashiCorp Terraform , Datadog/Splunk , GitHub Actions , and Okta . Design multi-step tasks grounded in your real workflows.

Require navigation of multiple apps, files, and stakeholders to challenge frontier AI agents. Collaborate with other cloud-computing experts to design environments, shape task scope, and review scenarios for realism and rigor. Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for cloud-computing agent benchmarks.

Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking. Your work directly informs how leading labs train and evaluate the next generation of AI systems. Qualifications Must-Have 3+ years of full-time experience at a major hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud) , a cloud-data platform ( Snowflake, Databricks ), or a Fortune 500 platform/infrastructure team .

Background in cloud architecture, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, or cloud FinOps. Day-to-day use of HashiCorp Terraform/Pulumi , Splunk/Datadog , GitHub Actions/CircleCI , and Okta/Microsoft Entra ID . Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Preferred Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect/SysOps/DevOps , Azure Solutions Architect , GCP Professional Cloud Architect , CKA/CKAD . Compensation & Legal Hourly contractor transitioning to compensation based on throughput of quality work. Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete) Upload resume AI interview based on your resume Submit form Resources & Support For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com PS: Our team reviews applications daily.

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