DevSecOps Engineer: AWS & Kubernetes, IaC

Kelly Services; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a senior platform engineer to design and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu/Terraform. You will support Kubernetes and container ecosystems, automate tests, and ensure secure-by-default patterns.

You will lead security hardening, vulnerability management, and governance-aligned practices while producing reliable, production-ready infrastructure code. Quick, autonomous problem solving is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud engineering, or a related field.
• Significant hands-on AWS experience supporting production workloads and platform services.
• Advanced OpenTofu/Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Strong Kubernetes deployment, operations, support, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong Docker and/or Podman experience.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash.
• Experience developing, testing, reviewing, and maintaining production-quality infrastructure code.
• Practical knowledge of hardening, vulnerability management, least privilege, secrets management, logging, and monitoring.
• Ability to deliver complex engineering work from requirements through production with limited supervision.
• Strong self-management, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or comparable platforms.
• Ability to validate AI output through human review, testing, quality gates, and security standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable, automated, and secure AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu/Terraform.
• Support networking, identity, compute, storage, and Kubernetes services.
• Implement security best practices, including: System hardening, Vulnerability and secrets management, Least-privilege access, Logging and monitoring, Secure-by-default patterns.
• Own engineering tickets from requirements through implementation, testing, rollout, documentation, and handoff.
• Independently manage work, resolve routine blockers, and maintain progress.
• Work with Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker and Podman.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to improve coding, testing, documentation, and problem-solving.
• Review, test, and validate all AI-generated code and recommendations.
• Develop automated unit, integration, and validation tests for infrastructure code.
• Build automation and engineering utilities using Python and Bash.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, troubleshooting, and standards development.
• Collaborate with technology governance teams on engineering processes, security controls, and audit requirements.
• Maintain continuity across existing platform initiatives and active workstreams.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Podman

Python

Bash

Infrastructure as Code

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Codex

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

CI/CD

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a senior platform engineer to design and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu/Terraform. You will support Kubernetes and container ecosystems, automate tests, and ensure secure-by-default patterns.

You will lead security hardening, vulnerability management, and governance-aligned practices while producing reliable, production-ready infrastructure code. Quick, autonomous problem solving is essential.