What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer / Azure / K8's / Hybrid / Cambridge, MA position at Motion Recruitment?
A fast-growing technology company is hiring a full-time DevOps Engineer. This role supports a modern cloud-first environment built across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and observability tooling. The team works in a flexible hybrid model.
This is an opportunity to join a high-impact engineering team working on an AI-driven platform used by internal and external stakeholders. The standout feature of this role is hands-on ownership you’ll work directly with customers, troubleshoot real-world cloud and Kubernetes challenges, and help scale infrastructure in a startup environment. Ideal for someone who enjoys variety, fast learning, customer interaction, and meaningful technical responsibility while maintaining strong work-life balance.
Required Skills & Experience
Tech Breakdown
This is an opportunity to join a high-impact engineering team working on an AI-driven platform used by internal and external stakeholders. The standout feature of this role is hands-on ownership you’ll work directly with customers, troubleshoot real-world cloud and Kubernetes challenges, and help scale infrastructure in a startup environment. Ideal for someone who enjoys variety, fast learning, customer interaction, and meaningful technical responsibility while maintaining strong work-life balance.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience with AWS
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS and/or AKS)
- Experience supporting or deploying workloads in Azure
- Ability to troubleshoot cloud and container issues across different environments
- Experience working directly with customers or external stakeholders
- Exposure to GCP
- Experience with Grafana and Prometheus
- Working knowledge of IAM concepts
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Configuration management with Ansible
- Previous experience in a startup or fast-paced environment
Tech Breakdown
- 40% AWS / Azure Cloud Infrastructure
- 35% Kubernetes (EKS / AKS)
- 15% Observability & Monitoring
- 10% Infrastructure as Code
- 70% Hands On
- 10% Planning & Documentation
- 20% Team Collaboration & Customer Interaction