Platform Engineer & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, AI Environments

About the role

Platform Engineering team at Gramian Consulting builds sophisticated reinforcement‑learning environments to evaluate AI systems on cloud and distributed infrastructure. The role designs realistic cloud and backend scenarios, creates deterministic validation tests, and documents system architecture while collaborating with technical leads. Fully remote, global, contract position with 20 hours/week commitment, paid per completed task.

What you’ll do

• Design realistic cloud and backend environments for evaluating complex AI‑driven technical tasks
• Build reproducible scenarios involving distributed systems, networking, IAM, queues, 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 intentionally defective configurations
• 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

What you’ll bring

• Strong professional experience in backend software engineering using Python, Go, Java, C++, Rust, or JavaScript/TypeScript
• 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