# Platform Engineer & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AI Environments)

> Gramian Consulting Group · India (Remote) · Contract · Posted 2026-08-07

**Salary:** USD 50–100

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** One

## Description

**About Us**

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly fit their needs.

**Role Overview**

We are looking for experienced **backend and infrastructure engineers** to design sophisticated reinforcement-learning environments that test how AI systems handle **distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, deployment, troubleshooting, security, scaling, and recovery**. The work combines backend engineering, DevOps, cloud architecture, and systems reliability. **No prior AI experience is required.**

**CONTRACT: Freelance contractor, paid per completed task**

COMMITMENT: Approximately 20 hours per week, subject to minimum weekly task submissions

**LOCATIONS: Fully remote - GLOBAL**

**PROCESS: Application review, technical assessment, and onboarding**

**HOURLY RATE: $50-$100/h**

**Responsibilities**

-   Design realistic **cloud and backend environments** for evaluating complex AI-driven technical tasks.
-   Build reproducible scenarios involving distributed systems, networking, IAM, queues, persistent storage, and observability.
-   Create environments that test deployment, troubleshooting, scaling, security, and disaster-recovery workflows.
-   Develop **deterministic validation tests** and clear acceptance criteria.
-   Produce golden reference implementations and technically correct solution paths.
-   Create intentionally defective configurations and realistic failure scenarios.
-   Design scenarios involving rolling deployments, service failures, access-control problems, and recovery procedures.
-   Apply DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-automation practices to environment development.
-   Document system architecture, operational flows, edge cases, and validation logic.
-   Collaborate with technical leads to refine technical specifications and evaluation quality.

## Requirements

-   Strong professional experience in **backend software engineering** using Python, Go, Java, C++, Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, or a comparable language.
-   Hands-on experience with **cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation**.
-   Proven experience designing, operating, or troubleshooting distributed systems in production.
-   Strong understanding of networking, service communication, and production-system architecture.
-   Hands-on knowledge of **IAM, authentication, authorization, and infrastructure security**.
-   Experience with queues, asynchronous systems, databases, and durable storage.
-   Strong understanding of observability, deployment strategies, scalability, and disaster recovery.
-   Ability to design reproducible technical environments and validate expected system behavior.

## Apply

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