Cloud Platform Architect (AI Infrastructure Environments)

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. They help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who fit their needs. The consultancy brings together experience in software engineering, technical recruitment, and business building.

• 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.

• 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.

Only freelance contractors are considered, with output-based compensation. The role requires a minimum weekly task submission and availability to start within 24–48 hours after onboarding. The position is fully remote.