# Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

About the jobMercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey. Position: DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) Type:Contract Compensation:$85/hour Location:Remote Role Responsibilities Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks. Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, observability, and infrastructure automation. Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes in model outputs. Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios. Qualifications Must-Have 2+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience. Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or observability tooling. Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools. Ability to

- **Id**: 3758534
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mercor-cloud-engineer-fully-remote-upto-85hr>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: GT
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-19T16:58:24Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-19T16:58:24Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 17
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1842
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing, Freelance & Talent Marketplaces, AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 4960
- **Name**: Mercor
- **Domain**: mercor.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mercor>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.417
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 70
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Windsurf** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 17

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Guatemala** — Iso: GT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T17:28:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 16
- **Expected fill days**: 70
- **Reasons**: seen:16, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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