Remote Cloud Platform Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Stock Options

Bonus eligible

Job summary

Global software company seeks two Cloud Platform Engineers to join its DevOps organization. This full-time, remote role focuses on modernizing a SaaS platform running in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and IaC tooling.

You will own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability, enabling scalable, reliable production systems. You will collaborate with software engineers, influence platform decisions, and help drive operational excellence across a critical production environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE
• Strong hands-on AWS experience
• Production experience with Kubernetes/EKS
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform or AWS CDK/CloudFormation)
• Proficient in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Docker and containerized workloads
• Familiarity with Grafana/Prometheus for observability
• Strong production troubleshooting and reliability improvements

Responsibilities

• Develop and modernize cloud platforms in a SaaS production environment
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to drive scalability and reliability
• Own platform decisions and drive improvements in deployment, observability, and security
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

AWS (hands-on)

Kubernetes / EKS (production)

CI/CD pipelines

Docker / containerized apps

Troubleshooting in production

Observability / monitoring

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Global software company seeks two Cloud Platform Engineers to join its DevOps organization. This full-time, remote role focuses on modernizing a SaaS platform running in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and IaC tooling.

You will own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability, enabling scalable, reliable production systems. You will collaborate with software engineers, influence platform decisions, and help drive operational excellence across a critical production environment.