Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) (remote)
About the role
Mercor connects exceptional technical talent with leading organisations working on ambitious technology and AI initiatives. We are looking for experienced Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join a full-time engagement focused on building and operating complex, enterprise-grade infrastructure. We are seeking engineers with strong hands-on experience building, operating, debugging, and scaling sophisticated production systems. The ideal candidate has worked extensively with Kubernetes, AWS, observability platforms such as Datadog, and modern infrastructure tooling. This is a full-time opportunity, and candidates must be able to commit to full-time engagement. What You'll Do - Build, operate, and improve highly available and scalable production infrastructure. - Manage and optimise Kubernetes-based production environments. - Design and maintain cloud infrastructure, primarily across AWS. - Improve system reliability, availability, scalability, and operational efficiency. - Build and maintain observability across infrastructure and applications using Datadog or similar platforms. - Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement durable fixes. - Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and overall production visibility. - Develop automation and internal tooling to reduce manual operational work. - Partner closely with software engineering teams on deployments, infrastructure, and production reliability. - Contribute to infrastructure architecture and technical decisions for complex distributed systems. Ideal Background - Professional experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering. - Hands-on experience operating complex, enterprise-grade production systems. - Strong production experience with Kubernetes. - Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure. - Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable observability platforms. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent technologies. - Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, containers, Linux, and cloud architecture. - Experience building or maintaining CI/CD and production deployment infrastructure. - Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and incident-response capabilities. - Proficiency in at ... Pay: $200 an hour (USD). Remote contract work through Mercor. Apply on Mercor, upload your CV and complete a short AI interview.