Senior DevOps Engineer — AWS Cloud, Serverless & Scale

Motion Recruitment; Holmdel Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus opportunities

Fully paid medical benefits

Full-time employee status

Work onsite at Bell Works campus, Holm

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a leading digital product studio in Holmdel, NJ. This onsite role focuses on building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure powering mobile apps used by sports teams and venues.

You will work with a modern AWS serverless stack (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, Cognito) and drive automation, monitoring, and reliable delivery at scale. Strong Python skills and IaC expertise are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps, Cloud/SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services.
• Strong Python development and automation skills.
• Experience designing highly available, low-latency, high-traffic systems.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational best practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• 85% AWS Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering
• 10% Automation & DevOps Tooling (Python, CI/CD, IaC)
• 5% Architecture & Cross-Functional Collaboration
• 40% Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure
• 25% Improve scalability, reliability, and system performance
• 15% Infrastructure automation using Python and Infrastructure as Code
• 10% Partner with software engineering teams on cloud architecture initiatives
• 10% Monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational excellence

Skills

AWS

Python

IaC

Serverless

SRE

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Communication

Independent work

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Lambda

DynamoDB

API Gateway

RDS

IAM

Cognito

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a leading digital product studio in Holmdel, NJ. This onsite role focuses on building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure powering mobile apps used by sports teams and venues.

You will work with a modern AWS serverless stack (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, Cognito) and drive automation, monitoring, and reliable delivery at scale. Strong Python skills and IaC expertise are required.