Senior Cloud Platform Engineeer

Kelly Services; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer in Chicago to own cloud architecture, Kubernetes platforms, and automation. You will migrate on-prem workloads to cloud-native services and design secure, cost-aware infrastructure for high-throughput workloads.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering and collaboration across teams, with a hybrid onsite work arrangement. 7–8+ years of experience in cloud/DevOps is expected.

Qualifications

• 7–8+ years of Cloud/Platform/SRE/DevOps experience.
• Experience designing resilient AWS environments, multi-region, failover, DR, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on engineering of large-scale distributed systems with security/compliance controls (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC).

Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering: 70% of the time.
• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 30% of the time.

Skills

Cloud/DevOps experience

AWS multi-region

Kubernetes / EKS

Tools

EKS

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

$63 - $73

Join a technology-driven SaaS organization modernizing mission-critical infrastructure while solving complex data, security, privacy, and reliability challenges at scale. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll take substantial hands‑on ownership of AWS cloud architecture, Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure automation, and the migration of critical applications and data from legacy on‑premises environments to cloud‑native services.

You’ll design secure, resilient, and cost‑conscious infrastructure supporting high‑throughput transactional and event‑driven workloads, with a strong focus on EKS, Terraform, observability, CI/CD, and operational resilience.

This is a hybrid onsite contractor position, requiring regular in‑person collaboration alongside remote engineering work.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7–8+ years of Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience,
• experience designing resilient AWS environments should include multi‑region architecture, failover, disaster recovery, and infrastructure cost optimization.
• Proven experience engineering large‑scale distributed, transactional, or event‑driven systems, including operational understanding of scalability, idempotency, replay strategies, backpressure, and failure recovery, with experience implementing security and compliance controls aligned to frameworks such as PCI‑DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience designing, migrating, or operating modern data platforms and lakehouse architectures, including open table formats and the movement of mission‑critical applications and data from on‑premises infrastructure into AWS.
• Advanced observability and production‑readiness experience for complex transactional platforms, including scalable monitoring, telemetry, alerting, incident response, reliability engineering, capacity planning, and operational documentation.

Daily Responsibilities

• Hands‑On Engineering: 70%
• Team Collaboration & Cross‑Functional Work: 30%

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in United States on a full‑time basis now and in the future.

Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

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Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full‑time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre‑employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.