[Hiring] Cloud Platform Architect @Gramian Consulting Group

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Architect to create realistic engineering environments used to evaluate how advanced AI systems solve production infrastructure problems.

• You will design scenarios involving distributed systems, networking, IAM, observability, deployments, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Each task will include a reproducible environment, measurable validation criteria, automated tests, a reference solution, and intentionally defective variants.
• Previous AI experience is not required.

• CONTRACT: Freelance contractor, output-based
• COMMITMENT: Flexible workload with minimum weekly task submission requirements
• LOCATIONS: Fully remote
• PROCESS: 30-minute AI interview, and hiring manager review
• NOTES: Compensation is paid per successfully completed task. Selected contributors should be available to begin within 24–48 hours after onboarding.
• HOURLY RATE: $60 - $130/h

Responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud and platform engineering challenges.
• Build reproducible, containerized infrastructure environments.
• Design scenarios covering networking, IAM, queues, storage, scaling, and reliability.
• Define measurable requirements for configuration, topology, and runtime behaviour.
• Develop automated integration, load, security, failure, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Create accurate reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Debug environments and resolve infrastructure or test issues.
• Document architecture decisions, expected outcomes, and validation logic.
• Review tasks and solutions created by other technical experts.

Qualifications

• Senior experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or systems engineering.
• Personal ownership of a production-grade platform or cloud environment.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable services, queues, storage, and failure handling.
• Practical experience with IAM, private networking, and service-to-service security.
• Experience with observability, SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to automate infrastructure or testing and debug containerized environments.
• Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, or multi-cloud environments.