DevOps Engineer

Motion Recruitment; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a DevOps Engineer for a fast-growing entertainment company in downtown Chicago. You will modernize and scale infrastructure across cloud and on‑prem environments, partnering with engineering and product teams to deliver resilient, cloud-first platforms.

This hybrid, full-time role emphasizes automating infrastructure, strengthening CI/CD, and enhancing observability while supporting AI-powered deployment practices.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of DevOps or Platform Engineering experience.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong background managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
• On-call availability, including weekends and holidays as needed.
• Authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Build, automate, and maintain infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency through platform and architectural enhancements.
• Advance CI/CD capabilities, including AI-enabled automation, for rapid, secure software delivery.
• Strengthen monitoring, logging, tracing, and proactive incident detection.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, technical docs, and architecture reviews.
• Drive consistency across teams by standardizing DevOps tools and processes.

Skills

DevOps/Platform Engineering

CI/CD pipelines

AWS cloud infra

On-call availability

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/EKS

ArgoCD

Bash

Python

Go

Datadog

PagerDuty

Linux

EC2

VPC

RDS

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

IAM

ALB

Job description

DevOps Engineer

A fast growing entertainment company is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Media Team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys tackling difficult problems, shaping architectural decisions, and developing resilient, maintainable solutions at scale. This is a full-time hybrid role with offices located in downtown Chicago.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in modernizing and scaling infrastructure across cloud and on-premises platforms. Working closely with engineering and product teams, you'll drive automation initiatives, enhance operational excellence, and help scale a cloud-first, AI-powered DevOps platform.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering, with 2–5 years supporting and scaling cloud infrastructure environments
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong background in managing AWS cloud infrastructure at scale across multiple environments
• On-call availability, including weekends and holidays as needed

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

• IaC: Terraform, Ansible
• Containerization/clusters: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, ArgoCD
• Scripting/programming: Bash, Python, Go
• Observability/monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty
• OS: Linux
• AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ALB, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, CloudWatch

Daily Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to architect and deploy secure, scalable, and resilient AWS infrastructure
• Build, automate, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Enhance system reliability, observability, and cost efficiency through continuous platform and architecture improvements
• Advance CI/CD capabilities, including AI-enabled automation, to support fast, reliable, and secure software delivery
• Strengthen operational visibility through monitoring, logging, tracing, and proactive incident detection
• Contribute to engineering best practices, technical documentation, and architectural design reviews
• Drive consistency across teams by standardizing DevOps tools, processes, and platform best practices

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.