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Platform Engineer
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Motion Recruitment
The ideal candidate will play a key role in both architectural strategy and hands‑on implementation, helping to scale the platform engineering function as the company grows. You’ll actively contribute to the codebase, review pull requests, and make pivotal technical decisions while hiring, mentoring, and developing a world‑class platform engineering team. The company is located in Atlanta, with potential hybrid in a few months.
What You Will Be Doing
Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and vision across AWS and Azure multi‑cloud environments.
Team Building & Hands‑On Contribution: Begin as a direct technical contributor while hiring, mentoring, and scaling a high‑performing platform engineering team as the organization grows.
Cloud Infrastructure Architecture: Design and lead implementation of scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient infrastructure that supports AI workloads and multi‑tenant SaaS applications.
Developer Enablement: Build and maintain internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and self‑service systems that increase delivery speed and reliability.
Security & Compliance: Own SOC 2 Type II controls, security frameworks, and compliance automation, ensuring platform resilience and audit readiness.
FinOps & Cost Optimization: Establish and lead cloud cost optimization initiatives and FinOps best practices to maximize infrastructure ROI.
Reliability & Observability: Implement SRE practices, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to maintain uptime, performance, and operational transparency.
AI/ML Infrastructure: Architect and manage infrastructure for LLM deployment, vector databases, and AI agent orchestration at scale.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business goals and product strategy.
Innovation & Technology Evolution: Continuously evaluate and introduce modern tools, frameworks, and practices to evolve the platform’s performance and developer experience.
Required Skills & Experience
8+ years in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years in technical leadership roles guiding and growing teams.
Deep, expert‑level knowledge of AWS and strong proficiency in Azure cloud services.
Proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi, with a history of implementing and managing large‑scale IaC environments.
Strong experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins, and practical application of GitOps principles.
Deep understanding of SOC 2, ISO 27001, and security frameworks, including vulnerability management and compliance automation.
Hands‑on experience designing multi‑tenant SaaS platforms with enterprise‑grade scalability, performance, and security.
Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or New Relic for metrics, tracing, and reliability engineering.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis now and in the future. This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.
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Platform Engineer
role at
Motion Recruitment
The ideal candidate will play a key role in both architectural strategy and hands‑on implementation, helping to scale the platform engineering function as the company grows. You’ll actively contribute to the codebase, review pull requests, and make pivotal technical decisions while hiring, mentoring, and developing a world‑class platform engineering team. The company is located in Atlanta, with potential hybrid in a few months.
What You Will Be Doing
Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and vision across AWS and Azure multi‑cloud environments.
Team Building & Hands‑On Contribution: Begin as a direct technical contributor while hiring, mentoring, and scaling a high‑performing platform engineering team as the organization grows.
Cloud Infrastructure Architecture: Design and lead implementation of scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient infrastructure that supports AI workloads and multi‑tenant SaaS applications.
Developer Enablement: Build and maintain internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and self‑service systems that increase delivery speed and reliability.
Security & Compliance: Own SOC 2 Type II controls, security frameworks, and compliance automation, ensuring platform resilience and audit readiness.
FinOps & Cost Optimization: Establish and lead cloud cost optimization initiatives and FinOps best practices to maximize infrastructure ROI.
Reliability & Observability: Implement SRE practices, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to maintain uptime, performance, and operational transparency.
AI/ML Infrastructure: Architect and manage infrastructure for LLM deployment, vector databases, and AI agent orchestration at scale.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business goals and product strategy.
Innovation & Technology Evolution: Continuously evaluate and introduce modern tools, frameworks, and practices to evolve the platform’s performance and developer experience.
Required Skills & Experience
8+ years in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years in technical leadership roles guiding and growing teams.
Deep, expert‑level knowledge of AWS and strong proficiency in Azure cloud services.
Proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi, with a history of implementing and managing large‑scale IaC environments.
Strong experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins, and practical application of GitOps principles.
Deep understanding of SOC 2, ISO 27001, and security frameworks, including vulnerability management and compliance automation.
Hands‑on experience designing multi‑tenant SaaS platforms with enterprise‑grade scalability, performance, and security.
Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or New Relic for metrics, tracing, and reliability engineering.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis now and in the future. This position doesn’t provide sponsorship.
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