Hybrid DevOps Engineer — AWS, Terraform & Kubernetes

Kelly Services; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners in Chicago is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support a fintech platform focused on debt relief and financial freedom. The role is hybrid in Chicago, IL, with AWS, IaC, and GitOps practices driving scalable cloud environments.

You will automate pipelines, manage containers with Docker/Kubernetes, and own infrastructure reliability while collaborating with engineers and leaders to improve performance and security.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform/OpenTofu/Helm.
• Experience with AWS core services (ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda) and CI/CD tools.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Assist in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate provisioning and configuration with IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Monitor system health, analyze performance metrics, and troubleshoot issues.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve application performance and availability.
• Uphold cloud security best practices across infra and workflows.
• Contribute to high-quality software delivery via code reviews and documentation.
• Perform runbooks, routine maintenance, and production deployments; participate in on-call.

Skills

DevOps experience

Terraform/OpenTofu/Helm

AWS Core Services

CI/CD Tools

Docker & Kubernetes

Project Management

Tools

CloudFormation

Datadog

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners in Chicago is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support a fintech platform focused on debt relief and financial freedom. The role is hybrid in Chicago, IL, with AWS, IaC, and GitOps practices driving scalable cloud environments.

You will automate pipelines, manage containers with Docker/Kubernetes, and own infrastructure reliability while collaborating with engineers and leaders to improve performance and security.