Senior Cloud Engineer Azure – Global Infra & Automation

Motion; Birmingham, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion is seeking a Cloud Engineer III to advance our cloud infrastructure across client systems in Birmingham, Alabama. You will mentor peers and drive design, deployment, and optimization of cloud solutions with a strong emphasis on automation, performance, high availability, and security.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, digital, and application teams to modernize legacy workloads, implement recommended cloud services, and ensure scalable, resilient architectures.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to eight (8) years of related experience.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and virtualization technologies.
• Ability to lead and mentor other Cloud Engineers and provide technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provides support in the management and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure services for clients.
• Acts as the interface between the client and the system and offers support to clients.
• Develops technologies to accelerate the cloud journey from legacy monolithic applications.
• Assists application and product teams to implement recommended or requested cloud services and resources.
• Provides technical leadership and design for cloud related projects.
• Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Analyzes production system operations using monitoring and capacity analysis to improve stability and performance.
• Acts as a mentor to lower level Cloud Engineers.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

GKE

Cloud Run

Cloud SQL

VMware

Windows

Linux

PowerShell

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

VMware

Kubernetes

Job description

Motion is seeking a Cloud Engineer III to advance our cloud infrastructure across client systems in Birmingham, Alabama. You will mentor peers and drive design, deployment, and optimization of cloud solutions with a strong emphasis on automation, performance, high availability, and security.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, digital, and application teams to modernize legacy workloads, implement recommended cloud services, and ensure scalable, resilient architectures.