Senior Cloud Platform Engineeer

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

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own AWS cloud architecture, Kubernetes platforms, and automation. You will migrate on-prem workloads to cloud-native services while focusing on secure, resilient, cost-conscious infrastructure for high-throughput workloads.

The role emphasizes EKS, Terraform, observability, CI/CD, and operational resilience in a hybrid on-site contractor capacity.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Hands-on engineering across cloud platforms and automation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

AWS Architecture

Security & Compliance

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

EKS

CI/CD

Job description

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.

Posted By: Adrian Cronk