DevOps Engineer, Remote - Contract

Role Title: DevOps Engineer Role Type: Contract Location: Remote

Required Skills

• Kubernetes

• Terraform

• CI/CD

• Python

• Linux

Key responsibilities

• Design realistic DevOps tasks based on production-style scenarios (CI/CD, containers, orchestration, IaC, monitoring, incident response)

• Write working reference solutions with clear setup and validation steps

• Review AI-generated output, identify failures, and write precise corrections with reasoning

• Maintain a strict quality bar on correctness and reproducibility

• Share structured feedback that improves future task design

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure engineering

• Strong coding ability in Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript (this role needs real code, not scripts alone)

• Practical depth in CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Docker, Kubernetes, and at least one cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)

• Advanced Linux and Git

• Professional English, written and spoken

• Availability of at least 20 hours per week

Preferred qualifications

• Observability stack experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)

• Security, secrets management, or platform reliability background

• Open source contributions or technical writing

• Previous AI training data or model evaluation work

Originally posted on Himalayas