Senior DevOps Engineer / AWS / Onsite in Holmdel, NJ

Kelly Services; Holmdel Township (NJ); On-site; USD 200,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus opportunities

Fully paid medical benefits

On-site at Bell Works campus, Holmdel,

High-impact role with ownership

Long-term growth opportunities

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners in Holmdel, NJ is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and scale a cloud-native, serverless AWS infrastructure powering enterprise mobile applications. The role demands ownership, strong Python automation, and experience with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and IAM.

This onsite position offers a high-visibility leadership role, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and opportunities to influence platform strategy in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, Cloud, SRE, or Infra Eng.
• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services.
• Production experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, Cognito.
• Strong Python development and automation skills.
• Experience designing highly available, low-latency 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 with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure.
• Improve scalability, reliability, and system performance.
• Infrastructure automation using Python and IaC.
• Partner with software engineering teams on cloud architecture initiatives.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational excellence.

Skills

AWS

Python

Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

RDS

IAM

Cognito

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

IaC

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Communication

Ownership

Job description

$200000 - $225000

A leading digital product studio is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join its growing engineering team in Holmdel, NJ. This full-time, onsite position will focus on building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure that powers mobile applications used by professional sports teams and live event venues. The organization leverages a modern, serverless AWS ecosystem including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, CDK, CloudFormation, IAM, and Cognito to deliver high-performance fan engagement experiences at scale.

This is a unique opportunity to become one of the organization’s most senior infrastructure leaders and only the second engineer at this level focused exclusively on DevOps and platform engineering. The ideal candidate will be able to step into a highly visible role, take ownership of cloud architecture decisions, and help drive the next stage of scale and reliability. The team values strong communication skills and collaborative personalities, seeking individuals who are not only technically exceptional but who thrive in a close-knit, high-performing environment.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering experience

• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services

• Production experience with:

• AWS Lambda

• API Gateway

• DynamoDB

• Amazon RDS

• IAM

• Cognito

• CloudFormation

• AWS CDK

• Strong Python development and automation skills

• Experience designing and supporting highly available, low-latency, high-traffic systems

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise

• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational best practices

• Strong troubleshooting and systems architecture skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities

• Ability to work independently and take ownership with minimal oversight

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with serverless-first architectures

• CI/CD pipeline design and automation experience

• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance

• Knowledge of containerization technologies and orchestration platforms

• Security and compliance best practice experience within AWS

• Experience supporting customer-facing applications with significant traffic volumes

• Prior experience within sports, entertainment, ticketing, media, or event technology environments

• Leadership, mentoring, or technical ownership experience

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

• 85% AWS Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

• 10% Automation & DevOps Tooling (Python, CI/CD, IaC)

• 5% Architecture & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Daily Responsibilities

• 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

The Offer

• Performance-based bonus opportunities

• Fully paid medical benefits

• Full-time employee status

• Opportunity to work from the highly regarded Bell Works campus in Holmdel, NJ

• High-impact role with significant ownership and influence over platform strategy

• Collaborative, engineering-driven culture

• Long-term growth opportunities within a rapidly scaling organization

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.