DevOps Engineer at Bespoke Labs, Remote, 8-16 Weeks, £Contract Rate

Senior DevOps Engineer (Freelance | Remote | Global)

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

Type: Contract | Remote | 30–40 hrs/week | 8–16 weeks

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 handled—outages, 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 (5–12 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)

Compensation:

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

Hourly compensation for core projects typically ranges between USD $40 and $70 per hour. Final rates are determined based on experience, skills evaluation, location, project scope, and overall requirements

Bespoke Labs Hiring Process

Shortlisting → Review / Take-Home Test → 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.