Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes (Hybrid)

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

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.