Senior DevOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry

Kelly Services; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Healthcare benefits

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a hybrid role in Lehi, Utah. You will support AWS-based infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm, Linux, and a modern observability stack to keep critical applications highly available at scale.

You will influence platform engineering, multi-account AWS patterns, and self-service tooling while partnering with senior engineers to improve reliability and drive scalable changes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Strong AWS experience.
• Kubernetes in production environments, ideally EKS.
• Terraform.
• Helm.
• Experience supporting highly available production environments.
• CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Linux administration.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience with incident response and troubleshooting production systems.
• Experience with infrastructure cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• 50% AWS Infrastructure maintenance and optimization.
• 30% Kubernetes / EKS cluster management and deployments.
• 15% Terraform, Helm, and IaC workflows.
• 5% Observability integration and CI/CD improvements.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Linux administration

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Cost optimization

Automation scripting

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

GitOps

Multi-account AWS

Platform engineering

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

Helm

AWS

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a hybrid role in Lehi, Utah. You will support AWS-based infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm, Linux, and a modern observability stack to keep critical applications highly available at scale.

You will influence platform engineering, multi-account AWS patterns, and self-service tooling while partnering with senior engineers to improve reliability and drive scalable changes.