Cloud Engineer Expert (Remote, Contract) — AfterQuery via AI Gig Scout

AfterQuery, an expert data lab that builds the evaluation and training data frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models, is hiring cloud engineers as contractors to author and grade the infrastructure and automation scenarios those evaluations run on. Pay is $85 to $165/hr, set from your experience and paid weekly via Stripe. It's fully remote and fully async with no fixed hours: a minimum of 10 hours per week, no maximum, as an independent contractor on ongoing project work. No screen recording, keystroke monitoring or idle timers.

You will author realistic cloud scenarios, from architecture design through incident response; write reference answers with the architectural reasoning behind each decision; grade model output for correctness, security and cost efficiency; and flag configurations that read plausible but would fail or overspend in production.

Requirements: 2+ years of professional cloud engineering experience on AWS, Azure or GCP; hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation or similar; depth in at least one area such as networking, containers, serverless or cost optimization; clear written English for documenting architecture and operational reasoning; able to commit at least 10 hours per week. Preferred: certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator or GCP Professional; Kubernetes and container orchestration experience; multi-cloud or large-scale migration experience.

Hiring process (per the listing): a roughly five-minute application (resume plus a few structured questions), resume review against a published rubric, a possible written assessment, onboarding (contractor agreement and Stripe), then a match to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.

Details and apply link: https://aigigscout.com/jobs/afterquery/cloud-engineer-expert-cloud-engineer-expert?utm_source=kubernetesjobs&utm_medium=jobboard&utm_campaign=aigigscout_growth

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