Cloud Operations Evaluation Environment Author
Job Description
IXO is engaging specialists to evaluate cloud-infrastructure environments that test an AI system's operational engineering ability. Your contribution is technical work: make the reasoning inspectable, identify substantive errors and provide evidence that supports a reliable assessment.
Work you will do
• Create realistic scenarios involving distributed systems, networking, IAM, queues, storage and observability.
• Build reproducible deployment, scaling, recovery or troubleshooting environments with golden solutions and deterministic validation.
• Include controlled defective variants and failure cases, documenting the architecture, edge conditions and criteria for a correct recovery.
Preferred background
• Strong backend language skills in Go, Rust, Java, JavaScript, C+• or Python, alongside practical cloud/DevOps, CI/CD and automation work.
• Production distributed-system design, scaling and security, including networking, IAM, queues, persistent storage and disaster recovery.
Deliverables
Submit the completed technical artifact or assessment with its supporting evidence, explicit assumptions, reproducible checks where applicable, and concise reasons for each material judgment. Address review findings within the agreed scope.
Location and schedule
Remote assignments are scheduled by agreement, with no guaranteed weekly volume. IXO confirms the applicable timing before work.
Pay and working terms
Per completed task; fee agreed before work USD. Payment is for a completed task that meets the agreed acceptance criteria. The fee, task specification and revision requirements are agreed before work; an advertised time estimate does not determine payment. Applying does not guarantee an assignment. Use public, licensed or otherwise authorized material only; do not submit confidential employer information, personal data or restricted research.