Hybrid DevOps Engineer - Cloud & AI-Driven Infra

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

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.