# Cloud Platform Architect (AI Infrastructure Environments)

**Company:** [Gramian Consulting Group](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/kANY7hHLXDH7fUqyifRLmf.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Contract
**Department:** Talent Solutions

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## 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 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.

## Requirements

-   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.