Kubernetes Task Auditor

Posted 28 Aug 2026

$70–90/hr

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Work

Remote · Contract · 40 hrs/wk · Remote — United States

Experience

3+ years

Eligibility

USA

Field

Software engineering

Skills

KubernetesKubernetes Cluster OperationsKubernetes TroubleshootingKubernetes ManifestsHelmAmazon EKSGoogle GKEAzure AKSCNIDNSIngressPersistent Volumes and ClaimsKubernetes RBACKubernetes Scheduling and EvictionGoPythonTypeScriptCKACKADIstioHorizontal Pod AutoscalingPrometheusGrafanaSREPlatform Engineering

About this role

Evaluate the quality, correctness, and production-readiness of Kubernetes tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess cluster-operations scenarios, manifest correctness, and failure-mode troubleshooting — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback.

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

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