Cloud & On-Prem Systems Engineer | AWS Kubernetes Terraform

Motion Recruitment; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment's client is building a scalable Infrastructure & Platform Operations team in Los Angeles. The Systems Engineer role focuses on hands-on development, maintenance, and improvement of secure infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments.

The candidate should bring strong systems administration, networking, AWS, IaC, containers, and production operations expertise to collaborate with software engineering and other technical teams to improve reliability, automation,

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering, DevOps, or related role.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Route 53).
• Experience administering Linux and/or Windows Server environments.
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, VPCs, subnets).
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments.
• Administer Linux and Windows servers, including patching and lifecycle management.
• Build networking infrastructure (VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, VPCs, subnets).
• Support CI/CD pipelines and orchestrate Docker/Kubernetes workloads.
• Manage identity, access controls, credentials, and secure system access.
• Monitor infrastructure health and proactively address performance issues.
• Implement security controls, vulnerability management, and patching processes.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Assist with capacity planning and cloud cost optimization.
• Create architecture docs, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Product, and Operations teams.

Skills

AWS

Networking

Infrastructure-as-Code

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

IAM/SSO

Production ops

Testing strategy

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Motion Recruitment's client is building a scalable Infrastructure & Platform Operations team in Los Angeles. The Systems Engineer role focuses on hands-on development, maintenance, and improvement of secure infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments.

The candidate should bring strong systems administration, networking, AWS, IaC, containers, and production operations expertise to collaborate with software engineering and other technical teams to improve reliability, automation,