Motion Recruitment
Senior DevOps Engineer / AWS / Kubernetes / Remote / Chicago
Motion Recruitment, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
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Senior DevOps Engineer / AWS / Kubernetes / Remote / Chicago
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Motion Recruitment Our client, a global leader in LGBTQ+ social media and technology, is looking for a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to join their infrastructure team. This is a full-time, remote opportunity where you’ll work with cloud-native technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps in a high-traffic production environment supporting millions of users. This role offers the opportunity to directly impact platform reliability at scale. The team values automation, cloud architecture, collaboration, clean infrastructure, container orchestration, and building systems that scale during traffic spikes. You will have room to grow alongside a seasoned SRE/DevOps team that values work-life balance and ownership. Required Skills & Experience Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) Scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows Strong knowledge of system monitoring, logging, and observability tools Desired Skills & Experience Experience in a high-scale, consumer-facing app or platform Familiarity with service mesh (e.g., Istio or Linkerd) Exposure to chaos engineering or incident response practices Passion for automation, performance tuning, and resilient system design What You Will Be Doing Tech Breakdown 60% AWS & Kubernetes 25% Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, GitOps) 15% CI/CD + Monitoring/Logging Daily Responsibilities 40% Building and maintaining AWS infrastructure 25% Managing Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration 20% Writing IaC and automating infrastructure workflows 10% Collaborating with dev teams to improve reliability and scalability 5% Participating in on-call (low-burden rotation) The Offer Bonus eligible You Will Receive The Following Benefits Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Vacation Time Stock Options Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future. Posted By:
Ally Mitchell Seniority level : Mid-Senior level Employment type : Full-time Job function : Engineering and Information Technology Industries : Staffing and Recruiting
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Senior DevOps Engineer / AWS / Kubernetes / Remote / Chicago
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Motion Recruitment Our client, a global leader in LGBTQ+ social media and technology, is looking for a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to join their infrastructure team. This is a full-time, remote opportunity where you’ll work with cloud-native technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps in a high-traffic production environment supporting millions of users. This role offers the opportunity to directly impact platform reliability at scale. The team values automation, cloud architecture, collaboration, clean infrastructure, container orchestration, and building systems that scale during traffic spikes. You will have room to grow alongside a seasoned SRE/DevOps team that values work-life balance and ownership. Required Skills & Experience Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) Scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows Strong knowledge of system monitoring, logging, and observability tools Desired Skills & Experience Experience in a high-scale, consumer-facing app or platform Familiarity with service mesh (e.g., Istio or Linkerd) Exposure to chaos engineering or incident response practices Passion for automation, performance tuning, and resilient system design What You Will Be Doing Tech Breakdown 60% AWS & Kubernetes 25% Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, GitOps) 15% CI/CD + Monitoring/Logging Daily Responsibilities 40% Building and maintaining AWS infrastructure 25% Managing Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration 20% Writing IaC and automating infrastructure workflows 10% Collaborating with dev teams to improve reliability and scalability 5% Participating in on-call (low-burden rotation) The Offer Bonus eligible You Will Receive The Following Benefits Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Vacation Time Stock Options Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future. Posted By:
Ally Mitchell Seniority level : Mid-Senior level Employment type : Full-time Job function : Engineering and Information Technology Industries : Staffing and Recruiting
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