Cloud / DevOps Engineer (Infra & IaC)
MercorLegit · not rated yetPosted on 24 Aug 2026
Pay: $75–110/hr
- Who can apply
- Open only to people in United States
- Hours
- 40 hrs/week · Full-time
- Where
- Remote, work from home
- Job type
- Expert (SME) review
- Openings
- 10 openings
At a glance: A full-time, remote expert (SME) review job with Mercor. It pays $75–110/hr for 40 hours a week. Only people in United States can apply.
Ongoing · listed since 24 Aug 2026
Mercor keeps this listing open to recruit all year. It is still open, but it isn’t a new opening.
What happens after you click Apply
- You leave AI Trainer HQ and go to Mercor’s own site.
- Upload your résumé on work.mercor.com
- Confirm your work authorization
- Sit the AI interview, which takes about 20 minutes
- Complete any written assessment attached to the listing
- On receiving an offer, sign it, configure payouts and verify your identity
How this pay compares
This job pays more than 82% of the 205 other software engineering jobs on the board that state pay; 17% pay more.
- This job
- $93/hrMiddle of $75–110/hr
- Median on Mercor
- $80/hrFrom 295 other paid jobs
- Median in software engineering
- $65/hrFrom 205 other paid jobs
Requirements
- Qualifications
- 4+ years of dedicated professional experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, site reliability, or platform engineering at a recognized, top-tier organization
- Hands-on production experience operating Kubernetes, including diagnosing and repairing cluster failures — not solely authoring manifests or using a managed control plane
- 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
- Demonstrable career progression
- Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly
- Languages
- English
- Equipment
- Computer with a reliable internet connection
About this job
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.
1\. Overview
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking talented Cloud and DevOps Engineers with deep, hands-on expertise in Kubernetes operations, AWS service integration, and Infrastructure-as-Code to bring hands-on technical excellence and elevate the quality of our AI training and inference infrastructure data. This is a full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.
2\. Key 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.
3\. Core Qualifications
• 4+ years of dedicated professional experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, site reliability, or platform engineering at a recognized, top-tier organization.
• Hands-on production experience operating Kubernetes, including diagnosing and repairing cluster failures — not solely authoring manifests or using a managed control plane.
• 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.
• Demonstrable career progression.
• Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly.
About Cincinnatus LLC: Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.
Equal Employment Opportunity: Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Listing history
- First seen on our board
- (9 days ago)
- Posted by Mercor
- Last checked
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- Mercor
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