Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS Infra for FinTech

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead design, deployment, and optimization of cloud platforms in AWS, supporting large-scale payment systems.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and compliance teams to build highly available, secure, and scalable infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment while advancing a cloud transformation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Cloud/Infrastructure/DevOps roles.
• 3+ years building and supporting AWS environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, and EKS.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Linux-based systems.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience supporting production environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and optimize cloud platforms in AWS.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and compliance teams.
• Build highly available, secure, and scalable infrastructure.
• Support cloud transformation initiatives in a regulated environment.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

DevOps

Collaboration

CI/CD understanding

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Linux

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead design, deployment, and optimization of cloud platforms in AWS, supporting large-scale payment systems.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and compliance teams to build highly available, secure, and scalable infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment while advancing a cloud transformation.