Lead AWS Infrastructure Engineer/Chicago, IL LOCAL

Motion Recruitment; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Stock Options

Job summary

Our client, a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operating products and technology-driven solutions, seeks a Senior Software Engineer/Platform Engineer to scale their Platform Product team. This role is hybrid 3 days a week in downtown Chicago.

You will shape how engineering teams build and ship software, designing automation, self-service tooling, and defaults that reduce risk without slowing delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture and observability, in a large, distributed environment working across multiple teams
• 3+ years as a full stack engineer building and operating services in production, including modern web frontends with React or a similar framework
• 3+ years coding in higher-level languages such as Python or Java in a multi-team codebase
• Strong knowledge of containers and Kubernetes, APIs, and web services, including building services with FastAPI or similar frameworks
• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure via UI, API, and CLI or automation
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, and strong CI/CD principles
• Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor, influence, and collaborate across teams

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve automated, self-service capabilities used across engineering teams
• Work on ambiguous problems, drive designs to decisions, mentor engineers via code reviews and pairing
• Reduce technical debt to lower risk and friction
• Collaborate with Product Engineering to automate cloud processes across the SDLC
• Suggest secure defaults and advise on coding practices, tests, observability
• Participate in standups and grooming to guide the team
• Document design decisions in Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Adopt an AI-first mindset and contribute to AI workflows

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Full stack engineering

Python/Java

Kubernetes/containers

AWS/GCP/Azure

Terraform/CI-CD

Mentor/cross-team collaboration

FastAPI or similar

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Our client, a leading distributor of maintenance, repair, and operating products and technology-driven solutions is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer/Platform Engineer to help scale their Platform Product team. This role is hybrid 3 days a week in downtown Chicago

This is a chance to shape how engineering teams across the company build and ship software, designing automation, self-service tooling, and opinionated defaults that reduce risk without slowing delivery down. You'll work independently on ambiguous, high-impact problems, mentor other engineers, and help drive an AI-first approach to how the team works. If you enjoy solving real business problems with modern cloud practices and want room to influence architecture and roadmap decisions, this role offers strong growth potential and the chance to make a company-wide impact.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture and observability, in a large, distributed environment working across multiple teams
• 3+ years as a full stack engineer building and operating services in production, including modern web frontends with React or a similar framework
• 3+ years coding in higher-level languages such as Python or Java in a multi-team codebase
• Strong knowledge of containers and Kubernetes, APIs, and web services, including building services with FastAPI or similar frameworks
• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure via UI, API, and CLI or automation
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, and strong CI/CD principles
• Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor, influence, and collaborate across teams

Desired Skills & Experience

• AWS Solutions Architect certification
• Experience leading architecture design and solutioning of greenfield and brownfield projects
• Knowledge of cloud native, event-driven microservices-based architectures
• Experience deploying organization-wide secrets as a service and integrating with pipelines and runtime applications
• Familiarity with common DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, or GitHub

What You Will Be Doing

• Design, build, and evolve automated, self-service capabilities that are efficient and dependable, and can be leveraged company-wide across engineering teams
• Work independently on ambiguous problems, drive designs to decisions, and mentor other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical talks
• Continuously identify and reduce technical debt that increases risk or developer friction
• Coordinate with Product Engineering to design solutions that automate cloud processes across the SDLC
• Suggest secure defaults and advise on clean coding practices, pipeline test coverage, and observability/alerting
• Participate in standups, desk checks, tech huddles, and story grooming meetings to provide guidance where it moves the work forward
• Record decisions, context, and outcomes related to design choices, and prepare Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Bring an AI-first mindset and contribute to AI ways of working

The Offer

• Bonus eligible

You Will Receive The Following Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Time
• Stock Options

Posted By: McIver Harris