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Kubernetes Auditor - Cluster Specialist

$70 - $90 per hour

Mercor

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Kubernetes Task Auditor
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$90/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Evaluate the quality and correctness of Kubernetes tasks for training and evaluating AI models.
  • Assess cluster-operations scenarios and manifest correctness.
  • Troubleshoot failure modes and provide clear, rubric-based feedback.
  • Review and improve AI model performance by ensuring production-readiness of tasks.
  • Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 3+ years hands-on production Kubernetes experience ( EKS/GKE/AKS or self-managed).
  • Deep understanding of cluster internals: CNI/DNS/ingress , PV/PVC storage, RBAC , and failure modes ( CrashLoopBackOff , OOMKilled , scheduling/eviction).
  • Experience authoring and reviewing manifests / Helm charts and debugging live cluster incidents.
  • Proficiency in Go , Python , or TypeScript .

Preferred

  • CKA / CKAD certification .
  • Service-mesh, autoscaling, and observability experience ( Istio , HPA , Prometheus/Grafana ).
  • Prior SRE / platform-engineering or task-grading experience.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

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