Senior Cloud-Native Kubernetes & CI/CD Engineer

Motion Recruitment; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment client seeks a DevOps Engineer to join a world-leading provider of access control and security management solutions. You will own deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and observability across Azure and Digital Ocean in a cloud-native transformation.

You will drive automation, support production AKS environments, build observability, run performance tests, and collaborate with customers on real-world deployments. Autonomy and growth await.

Qualifications

• Deep Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Strong Docker and Docker Swarm experience.
• Production Kubernetes admin and troubleshooting.
• CI/CD pipelines with TeamCity, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Deployment automation for customer environments.
• Monitoring/observability/logging/alerting experience.
• Load testing with k6, Locust, or JMeter.
• Messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or NATS.
• PostgreSQL experience.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Git-based workflows.
• Networking: DNS, TLS, VPNs, load balancing, firewalls.
• Technical documentation and strong communication.
• Customer-facing deployment support.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering environments across Azure and Digital Ocean.
• Design and automate infrastructure provisioning for on-demand testing and validation.
• Build, maintain, and improve customer-facing deployment tooling and on-premises installation processes.
• Support Kubernetes and Docker Swarm deployment models for customer environments.
• Own TeamCity CI/CD pipelines, release automation, testing integrations, and security scanning workflows.
• Partner with Hosting Team supporting production AKS infrastructure and assist with troubleshooting.
• Build and maintain observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, logging, and alerts.
• Execute performance and load testing to improve platform scalability.
• Strengthen infrastructure security and contribute to SOC 2 compliance initiatives.
• Develop runbooks, installation guides, incident response docs, and knowledge base materials.
• Participate in production on-call rotations and incident response efforts.
• Research, evaluate, and implement emerging DevOps tools and cloud-native technologies.

Skills

Linux administration

Docker

Kubernetes

On-prem deployments

CI/CD pipelines

Deployment automation

Observability & monitoring

Load testing

Messaging systems

PostgreSQL

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Git workflows

Networking concepts

Documentation & communication

Customer-facing deployments

Tools

TeamCity

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Ansible

Mend.io

Redis

Elasticsearch

Azure

Digital Ocean

Job description

Motion Recruitment client seeks a DevOps Engineer to join a world-leading provider of access control and security management solutions. You will own deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and observability across Azure and Digital Ocean in a cloud-native transformation.

You will drive automation, support production AKS environments, build observability, run performance tests, and collaborate with customers on real-world deployments. Autonomy and growth await.