Cloud Platform Architect & Automation Leader

Motion Recruitment; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is hiring a Lead Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on scalable self‑service platforms, automating cloud operations, and improving developer experience across a large engineering organization.

You will design cloud‑native solutions, reduce operational friction, and establish secure, reliable infrastructure patterns that can be leveraged across the company, while mentoring engineers and promoting technical excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering in large-scale environments.
• Experience designing cloud-native, microservices architectures and supporting production services.
• Strong skills in IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of scalable, self-service platforms.
• Automate cloud operations and improve developer experience.
• Mentor engineers and influence platform strategy.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Python/Java

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Observability

Mentoring

Technical communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

APIs

CI/CD tooling

GitHub

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Motion Recruitment is hiring a Lead Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on scalable self‑service platforms, automating cloud operations, and improving developer experience across a large engineering organization.

You will design cloud‑native solutions, reduce operational friction, and establish secure, reliable infrastructure patterns that can be leveraged across the company, while mentoring engineers and promoting technical excellence.