Azure DevOps Engineer — Cloud Platform & CI/CD Leader

Kelly Services; Chelmsford (MA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Hybrid schedule

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer for a high-visibility modernization effort across its infrastructure, cloud platforms, and software delivery processes. You will own CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and infrastructure automation while partnering with cloud operations and software engineering teams.

This hands-on role drives operational excellence and modern tooling across cloud-hosted and customer-managed environments, with a hybrid schedule in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/IT.
• 5+ years in DevOps, Infra Engineering, or SRE.
• Deep Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Kubernetes in production experience.
• Docker and containerized deployments experience.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Scripting/automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Cloud experience, preferably Azure.
• Networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing).
• Git-based source control workflows and strong documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain development, QA, staging, and performance testing environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and environment lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain deployment tooling for cloud and customer-hosted environments.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.
• Support production issues with cloud operations and perform root cause analysis.
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across environments.
• Design and execute performance, load, and scalability testing.
• Improve infrastructure security and support compliance initiatives.
• Research, evaluate, and implement modern DevOps tooling and automation.
• Create runbooks and deployment guides; participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Linux administration

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting (Python, Bash, Go)

Git-based workflows

Cloud platforms (Azure)

Networking fundamentals

Documentation & communication

On-premises deployments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Tools

Kubernetes in production

Docker

TeamCity

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer for a high-visibility modernization effort across its infrastructure, cloud platforms, and software delivery processes. You will own CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and infrastructure automation while partnering with cloud operations and software engineering teams.

This hands-on role drives operational excellence and modern tooling across cloud-hosted and customer-managed environments, with a hybrid schedule in