What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Infrastructure Engineer position at Motion Recruitment?
Join a mission-focused engineering team supporting secure infrastructure across U.S. Government and commercial environments. You'll help build, operate, and scale systems critical to national security—working hands-on with infrastructure, automation, and deployments.
This role is hybrid in the DC metro area and requires an active Top Secret clearance and involves a mix of on-prem and cloud environments, with occasional exposure to commercial systems.
Key Responsibilities
This role is hybrid in the DC metro area and requires an active Top Secret clearance and involves a mix of on-prem and cloud environments, with occasional exposure to commercial systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain high-availability infrastructure systems
- Deploy and upgrade software in secure and air-gapped environments
- Automate workflows, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve long-term system reliability
- Collaborate closely with forward-deployed and product teams
- Participate in an on-call rotation
- Experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering
- Proficiency in Python or Go
- Strong understanding of Linux and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD)
- Ability to operate in fast-moving, mission-critical environments
