Staff Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Are you passionate about building the cloud platforms that power mission-critical applications? We're partnering with an established technology organization seeking a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to lead the evolution of its AWS platform and influence the future of cloud engineering across the business. This is an opportunity to own large-scale infrastructure initiatives, champion automation and platform engineering best practices, and mentor teams through complex technical challenges.

You'll remain hands-on while helping define cloud architecture, improve developer experience, and strengthen the organization's security and operational maturity. If you enjoy solving infrastructure problems at scale and want to help shape the next generation of cloud capabilities, this role offers both technical depth and strategic influence.

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep expertise designing, automating, and securing enterprise AWS environments using Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and core AWS services.
• Proven experience building and operating Kubernetes-based platforms, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and resilient cloud infrastructure supporting large-scale applications.
• 8+ years of cloud or infrastructure engineering experience with a strong background in platform engineering, cloud security, governance, risk and compliance (GRC), and designing highly available systems.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience creating reusable infrastructure, internal developer platforms, APIs, and automation that enable engineering teams to deliver software faster and more reliably.
• Strong understanding of observability, networking, Linux, Docker, DNS, load balancing, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting regulated environments, implementing security best practices, or earning AWS and other cloud-related certifications.

Daily Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering: 70%
• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 30%
  
  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.
  
  Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment's Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.
  
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