Role Title: DevOps Engineer
Role Type: Contract
Location: Remote
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Terraform
CI/CD
Python
Linux
Key responsibilities
Design realistic DevOps tasks based on production-style scenarios (CI/CD, containers, orchestration, IaC, monitoring, incident response)
Write working reference solutions with clear setup and validation steps
Review AI-generated output, identify failures, and write precise corrections with reasoning
Maintain a strict quality bar on correctness and reproducibility
Share structured feedback that improves future task design
Required qualifications
3+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure engineering
Strong coding ability in Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript (this role needs real code, not scripts alone)
Practical depth in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)
Advanced Linux and Git
Professional English, written and spoken
Availability of at least 20 hours per week
Preferred qualifications
Observability stack experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
Security, secrets management, or platform reliability background
Open source contributions or technical writing
Previous AI training data or model evaluation work
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