Hybrid Cloud Systems Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Systems Engineer to join its Infrastructure & Platform Operations team. This hands‑on role focuses on building, maintaining, and improving secure, scalable infrastructure across cloud and on‑premises environments.

The ideal candidate brings a strong foundation in systems administration, networking, AWS, Infrastructure-as-Code, containers, and production operations.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering, DevOps, or related role.
• Hands-on 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 balancing, VPCs, subnets).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Observability/monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments.
• Administer Linux and Windows servers, including patching and lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain networking infrastructure (VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, VPCs, subnets).
• Support CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes workloads, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Manage identity, access controls, credentials, and secure system access.
• Monitor infrastructure health and proactively address performance and reliability issues.
• Implement security controls, vulnerability management, and patching processes.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Participate in incident response and perform root-cause analysis.
• Support infrastructure needs for AI-enabled applications and automation.
• Assist with capacity planning, performance tuning, and cloud cost optimization.
• Create architecture documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

Network Engineering

DevOps

AWS

Infrastructure-as-Code

Containers

Production operations

Linux/Windows administration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Systems Engineer to join its Infrastructure & Platform Operations team. This hands‑on role focuses on building, maintaining, and improving secure, scalable infrastructure across cloud and on‑premises environments.

The ideal candidate brings a strong foundation in systems administration, networking, AWS, Infrastructure-as-Code, containers, and production operations.