Senior DevOps Engineer

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Life and Disability Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Princeton, NJ. This role requires expertise in managing Kubernetes clusters and automation in both cloud and on-prem environments. Key responsibilities include leading Kubernetes onboarding, implementing secure access, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.

The successful candidate will also support platform observability and incident response while working closely with various teams. Benefits include medical insurance, a 401K plan, and paid parental leave.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes app manifests, networking, and GitOps.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services.
• Proficiency in scripting languages: Shell, Bash, and Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead Kubernetes application onboarding and operational support.
• Implement secure access patterns using Keycloak and AWS IAM.
• Build and maintain CI/CD automation with Jenkins.
• Develop observability and infrastructure tooling.
• Participate in incident response and SRE practices.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Kubernetes

AWS

Scripting (Shell, Bash, Python)

Networking

Job description

This company operates specialized electronic trading platforms that support fast, reliable, and regulated financial transactions. They design and run the technology that powers these markets, including the infrastructure, software systems, and connectivity that enable participants to trade efficiently and securely.

They are searching or a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of theiradministering Kubernetes clusters and onboarding applications across both on-prem and cloud environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement secure identity and access workflows, and establish observability, networking, and storage tooling for the platform. The position also involves automating operational processes, troubleshooting complex incidents, and contributing to SRE practices while collaborating closely with network, security, and application teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes app manifests (Kustomize/ Helm), networking, and GitOps for Kubernetes.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, Load Balancers, S3, VPC, RDS, ECS, CloudWatch) and on-prem.
• Proficiency in scripting languages: Shell, Bash, and Python.
• Bonus points for experience in financial services or trading environments, but not required.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead end-to-end Kubernetes application onboarding, including environment preparation, production-readiness assessments, and ongoing operational support across EKS and on-prem clusters.
• Implementsecure access patterns, designing and managing authentication and authorization workflows using Keycloak and AWS IAM.
• Buildand maintainCI/CD automation, creating Jenkins pipelines for container image builds and integrating with multiple image registries.
• Develop and supportplatform observability and infrastructure tooling, covering monitoring, container storage, and networking components.
• Handleincident response and SRE practices, including root causeanalysis, documentation, SLIs, error budgets, alerting improvements, and participation in on?call rotations.

The Offer

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Life and Disability Benefits
• Paid Parental Leave

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.