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Cloud Platform Architect
Location
Worldwide
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$60 - $130 / hour
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Cloud Platform Architect
Gramian Consulting Group
Role Description We are looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Architect to create realistic engineering environments used to evaluate how advanced AI systems solve production infrastructure problems. - You will design scenarios involving distributed systems, networking, IAM, observability, deployments, scalability, and disaster recovery. - Each task will include a reproducible environment, measurable validation criteria, automated tests, a reference solution, and intentionally defective variants. - Previous AI experience is not required. - CONTRACT: Freelance contractor, output-based - COMMITMENT: Flexible workload with minimum weekly task submission requirements - LOCATIONS: Fully remote - PROCESS: 30-minute AI interview, and hiring manager review - NOTES: Compensation is paid per successfully completed task. Selected contributors should be available to begin within 24–48 hours after onboarding. - HOURLY RATE: $60 - $130/h Responsibilities - Create realistic cloud and platform engineering challenges. - Build reproducible, containerized infrastructure environments. - Design scenarios covering networking, IAM, queues, storage, scaling, and reliability. - Define measurable requirements for configuration, topology, and runtime behaviour. - Develop automated integration, load, security, failure, deployment, and recovery tests. - Create accurate reference solutions and intentionally defective variants. - Debug environments and resolve infrastructure or test issues. - Document architecture decisions, expected outcomes, and validation logic. - Review tasks and solutions created by other technical experts. Qualifications - Senior experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or systems engineering. - Personal ownership of a production-grade platform or cloud environment. - Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable services, queues, storage, and failure handling. - Practical experience with IAM, private networking, and service-to-service security. - Experience with observability, SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback, and disaster recovery. - Ability to automate infrastructure or testing and debug containerized environments. - Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu. - Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, or multi-cloud environments.
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