Cloud Computing Specialist Fully Remote

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Cloud Computing Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $1750$2150 per completed task
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build a realistic digital workspace using architecture docs runbooks RFCs and other tools like HashiCorp Terraform Datadog Splunk and GitHub Actions.
• Design multi-step tasks that challenge frontier AI agents by navigating multiple apps and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cloud-computing experts to design environments and review scenarios for realism.
• Work asynchronously with research teams to refine task designs and evaluation criteria for cloud-computing agent benchmarks.
• Contribute to frontier AI research and benchmarking by informing how leading labs train and evaluate AI systems.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3 years of experience at a major hyperscaler or Fortune 500 platform/infrastructure team.
• Background in cloud architecture site reliability engineering DevOps or cloud FinOps.
• Day-to-day use of HashiCorp Terraform Splunk Datadog GitHub Actions and Okta.
• Strong analytical thinking and writing skills.

Preferred

• Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Azure Solutions Architect GCP Professional Cloud Architect CKA or CKAD.

Compensation & Legal

• Task Completion Pay: Competitive and based on task quality.
• Performance Bonus: Weekly bonus incentive for top performers.
• Hourly Opportunity: Potential transition to hourly compensation for sustained quality.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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