Platform Engineer | Remote
Crossing Hurdles · United States · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$60–$130/hrContract
About the role
Senior Platform Engineer contract position, remote, with a commitment of 10‑40 hours per week and compensation ranging from $60 to $130 per hour.
Responsibilities
- Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
- Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
- Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
- Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure‑injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
- Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.
Requirements
- Strong relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial‑failure scenarios.
- Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least‑privilege access, and service‑to‑service security.
- Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery.
- Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language.
Pay
$60 - $130/hour
Schedule
10‑40 hrs/week