Platform Engineer & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AI Environments)

About Us

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly fit their needs.

Role Overview

We are looking for experienced backend and infrastructure engineers to design sophisticated reinforcement-learning environments that test how AI systems handle distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, deployment, troubleshooting, security, scaling, and recovery . The work combines backend engineering, DevOps, cloud architecture, and systems reliability. No prior AI experience is required.

CONTRACT: Freelance contractor, paid per completed task

COMMITMENT: Approximately 20 hours per week, subject to minimum weekly task submissions

LOCATIONS: Fully remote - GLOBAL

PROCESS: Application review, technical assessment, and onboarding

HOURLY RATE: $50-$100/h

Responsibilities

• Design realistic cloud and backend environments for evaluating complex AI-driven technical tasks.
• Build reproducible scenarios involving distributed systems, networking, IAM, queues, persistent storage, and observability.
• Create environments that test deployment, troubleshooting, scaling, security, and disaster-recovery workflows.
• Develop deterministic validation tests and clear acceptance criteria.
• Produce golden reference implementations and technically correct solution paths.
• Create intentionally defective configurations and realistic failure scenarios.
• Design scenarios involving rolling deployments, service failures, access-control problems, and recovery procedures.
• Apply DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-automation practices to environment development.
• Document system architecture, operational flows, edge cases, and validation logic.
• Collaborate with technical leads to refine technical specifications and evaluation quality.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience in backend software engineering using Python, Go, Java, C++, Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, or a comparable language.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation .
• Proven experience designing, operating, or troubleshooting distributed systems in production.
• Strong understanding of networking, service communication, and production-system architecture.
• Hands-on knowledge of IAM, authentication, authorization, and infrastructure security .
• Experience with queues, asynchronous systems, databases, and durable storage.
• Strong understanding of observability, deployment strategies, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to design reproducible technical environments and validate expected system behavior.