What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer / Ansible / Terraform / Remote NE position at Motion Recruitment?
A growing technology-driven organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team full time. This role is based in Boston, MA (remote with a preference for candidates in the Northeast) and supports a modern, cloud first environment. The position focuses on building, automating, and maintaining infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins in a production scale environment.
This is an opportunity to step into a highly impactful DevOps role where your work directly supports a mission critical platform used at scale. The team is looking for someone who enjoys ownership, automation, and improving systems end to end from infrastructure to deployment pipelines. You’ll gain exposure to modern cloud architecture, security, and release engineering while working with a collaborative team that values work-life balance, continuous learning, and long term growth. If you like solving real world problems and building reliable systems that matter, this role offers both stability and challenge.
Required Skills & Experience
Tech Breakdown
This is an opportunity to step into a highly impactful DevOps role where your work directly supports a mission critical platform used at scale. The team is looking for someone who enjoys ownership, automation, and improving systems end to end from infrastructure to deployment pipelines. You’ll gain exposure to modern cloud architecture, security, and release engineering while working with a collaborative team that values work-life balance, continuous learning, and long term growth. If you like solving real world problems and building reliable systems that matter, this role offers both stability and challenge.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5 years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Proficiency in Python for tool building and automation
- Hands-on experience with Ansible and Terraform
- Experience with Docker configuration and orchestration
- Jenkins pipeline creation and maintenance
- Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX systems
- Experience with network and firewall configuration
- Strong background in process automation and infrastructure management
- Experience supporting production and staging environments
- Exposure to monitoring, security, and release engineering practices
- Knowledge of CI/CD best practices
- Experience working in cloud-hosted, distributed systems
- Strong troubleshooting and communication skills
Tech Breakdown
- 80% Linux/UNIX-based systems
- 20% Cloud infrastructure and networking tools
- 70% Hands-On Engineering (automation, infrastructure, CI/CD, deployments)
- 10% Planning and Process Improvement
- 20% Team Collaboration and Support