Motion Recruitment
DevOps Engineer
Motion Recruitment is hiring a DevOps Engineer in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Posted October 2, 2026.
Job at a glance
- Company
- Motion Recruitment
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Pay
- $100,000 – $145,000
- Workplace
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Sector
- Engineering & Technology
- Posted
- October 2, 2026
- Apply by
- December 6, 2026
About the job
DevOps Engineer
A fast growing entertainment company is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Media Team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys tackling difficult problems, shaping architectural decisions, and developing resilient, maintainable solutions at scale. This is a full-time hybrid role with offices located in downtown Chicago.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in modernizing and scaling infrastructure across cloud and on-premises platforms. Working closely with engineering and product teams, you'll drive automation initiatives, enhance operational excellence, and help scale a cloud-first, AI-powered DevOps platform.
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering, with 2–5 years supporting and scaling cloud infrastructure environments
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Strong background in managing AWS cloud infrastructure at scale across multiple environments
- On-call availability, including weekends and holidays as needed
Desired Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown
- IaC: Terraform, Ansible
- Containerization/clusters: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, ArgoCD
- Scripting/programming: Bash, Python, Go
- Observability/monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty
- OS: Linux
- AWS services: EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ALB, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, CloudWatch
Daily Responsibilities
- Partner with cross-functional teams to architect and deploy secure, scalable, and resilient AWS infrastructure
- Build, automate, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Enhance system reliability, observability, and cost efficiency through continuous platform and architecture improvements
- Advance CI/CD capabilities, including AI-enabled automation, to support fast, reliable, and secure software delivery
- Strengthen operational visibility through monitoring, logging, tracing, and proactive incident detection
- Contribute to engineering best practices, technical documentation, and architectural design reviews
- Drive consistency across teams by standardizing DevOps tools, processes, and platform best practices
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.