DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer (Freelance | Remote | Global)

BespokeLabs - Mountain View, California (VC-backed, founded by IIT & Ivy League leaders)

Type: Contract | Remote | 3040 hrs/week | 3 Months

About the Role

We're building a new AI training initiative that requires real-world engineering experience. You'll help design and document authentic DevOps + backend scenarios based on incidents you've handledoutages, scaling issues, secure deployments, distributed systems challenges, and more. Your experience will directly train next-generation AI systems.

What You'll Do

• Capture real DevOps + backend incidents and convert them into benchmark tasks
• Contribute to secure, scalable, Kubernetes-native architectures
• Work across CI/CD, observability, identity, infrastructure-as-code, and backend services
• Collaborate with our team to build realistic engineering workflows

Required Experience (512 years)

Strong hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Backend Engineering, including:

• Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, k9s, k3s (GitLab CI preferred)
• Go / Python / Java, Docker, gRPC, Kubernetes-native services
• Experience with secure, offline/air-gapped deployments (big plus)
• Familiarity with at least five of the following:
• Identity & Access Management
• Observability (Prometheus + Grafana)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Keycloak
• GitLab CI
• Terraform OSS
• Kubernetes tools & ecosystem
• ML/Distributed pipelines (nice to have)
• Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written

Compensation:

This is a fully remote opportunity open to candidates based in Indonesia.

Hourly compensation for core projects typically ranges between USD $20 and $40 per hour. Final rates are determined based on experience, skills evaluation, location, project scope, and overall requirements

What You'll Find at Bespoke Labs / What makes us different

• Fully remote, flexible schedule (3040 hrs/week is highly preferred)
• 3 Months Engagement
• Work that genuinely values hands-on, at-scale experience
• Ideal for DevOps engineers exploring high-impact side work or frontier AI exposure (Short Term Project / Full Time Projects)
• We keep the bar high and the teams small
• Prior AI Training experience is NOT mandatory for this freelancing role.

Bespoke Labs Hiring Process

Shortlisting Take-Home Test / Interview Onboarding

Apply Now

If you've operated systems at scale and want flexible work while shaping next-gen AI, we'd love to hear from you.