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
- Solid understanding of observability, deployment strategies, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Ability to design reproducible technical environments and validate expected system behavior

📌 Platform Engineer & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AI Environments) (India)
🏢 Gramian Consulting
📍 India