Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud Automation & Reliability (Hybrid)

Motion Recruitment; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Equity or long-term incentive

Hybrid work schedule (2-3 days onsite)

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

PTO

401(k) with company match

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development and cert. Re-

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to shape and scale the cloud infrastructure powering critical business applications. This hybrid role enables hands-on leadership to drive modernization, reliability, and developer productivity across a growing engineering organization.

You will design IaC, CI/CD, and platform services, collaborating with software, security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable systems at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Platform/Infra Eng or related field.
• 3+ years leading initiatives or teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GC).
• IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• CI/CD pipelines experience.
• Kubernetes and containerization knowledge.
• Scripting in Python/Bash/Go.
• Observability and reliability practices.
• Networking and security fundamentals.
• BS in CS/Engineering or related.

Responsibilities

• Architect and enhance cloud-native platform capabilities.
• Build automation for provisioning and deployment.
• Lead Kubernetes platform strategy, governance, and operational excellence.
• Improve developer experience with self-service tooling.
• Partner with security to implement scalable controls.
• Establish reliability, observability, and incident response practices.
• Mentor engineers across multiple projects.
• Drive infrastructure scalability and cost optimization.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide platform strategy.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Bash/Go

Networking & security

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ArgoCD

Flux

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to shape and scale the cloud infrastructure powering critical business applications. This hybrid role enables hands-on leadership to drive modernization, reliability, and developer productivity across a growing engineering organization.

You will design IaC, CI/CD, and platform services, collaborating with software, security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable systems at scale.