Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS & Kubernetes Platform Lead

Motion Recruitment; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Eligible

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Stock Options

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is partnering with an established Austin-based SaaS organization to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will support AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, Terraform automation, Docker, Linux administration, and enterprise CI/CD pipelines in a hybrid role.

You will work closely with software engineering teams to improve scalability, reliability, and deployment automation, while mentoring others and driving automation-first initiatives.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE.
• Proven experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker.
• Linux administration and production cloud operations.
• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud initiatives to improve scalability and reliability.
• Partner with software teams to automate deployments and deployment pipelines.
• Mentor teammates and contribute to platform architecture decisions.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Linux administration

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Python

Go

Infrastructure as Code

Production cloud ops

Tools

Helm

ArgoCD

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

AWS Solutions Architect Certification

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Motion Recruitment is partnering with an established Austin-based SaaS organization to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will support AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, Terraform automation, Docker, Linux administration, and enterprise CI/CD pipelines in a hybrid role.

You will work closely with software engineering teams to improve scalability, reliability, and deployment automation, while mentoring others and driving automation-first initiatives.