Kubernetes Engineer / Hybrid / Chelmsford

• Own engineering environments across Azure and Digital Ocean, including development, QA, staging, and performance testing environments

• Design and automate infrastructure provisioning to support on-demand testing and validation environments

• Build, maintain, and improve customer-facing deployment tooling and on-premises installation processes

• Support both Kubernetes and legacy Docker Swarm deployment models for customer environments

• Own and enhance TeamCity CI/CD pipelines, release automation, testing integrations, and security scanning workflows

• Partner with the Hosting Team supporting production AKS infrastructure and assist with troubleshooting and root cause analysis

• Build and maintain observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, and alerting tools

• Execute performance and load testing initiatives to improve platform scalability and reliability

• Strengthen infrastructure security and contribute to compliance initiatives, including SOC 2-related activities

• Develop runbooks, installation guides, incident response documentation, and engineering knowledge base materials

• Participate in production on-call rotations and incident response efforts

• Research, evaluate, and implement emerging DevOps tools and cloud-native technologies that improve engineering efficiency and platform reliability

• Deep Linux expertise, including system administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and containerized workloads

• Strong Docker experience, including knowledge of Docker Swarm environments

• Production Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting experience

• Experience supporting on-premises software deployments and customer-hosted infrastructure

• CI/CD pipeline experience with TeamCity, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools

• Experience building deployment packages, installers, or deployment automation for customer environments

• Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting platforms

• Experience with load testing and performance testing tools such as k6, Locust, or JMeter

• Understanding of messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, NATS, or similar technologies

• Relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL

• Strong scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages

• Experience with Git-based source control workflows

• Solid networking knowledge including DNS, TLS, VPNs, load balancing, and firewall concepts

• Strong technical documentation and communication skills

• Customer-facing experience supporting installations, upgrades, or technical deployments

Desired Skills & Experience

• Prometheus and Grafana implementation and administration experience

• Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools

• Experience with Mend.io or comparable SAST/SCA security platforms

• Redis and Elasticsearch administration experience

• Azure cloud experience and Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400)

• Digital Ocean infrastructure experience

• Experience supporting air-gapped or highly restricted customer environments

• Familiarity with SOC 2 compliance and security best practices

• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude

• Exposure to physical security, access control, or IoT-related technology platforms

• Experience introducing and driving adoption of modern DevOps tooling and best practices

What You Will Be Doing Tech Breakdown

• 40% Linux Administration & Infrastructure Engineering

• 25% Kubernetes, Docker & Container Platform Management

• 15% CI/CD Pipelines & Release Automation (TeamCity)

• 10% Observability, Monitoring & Performance Testing

• 10% Customer Deployment Support & Technical Collaboration

Kelly Services (Boston, MA)

$100000 - $140000

This company is a leading provider of access control and security management solutions, delivering innovative technology that helps organizations protect people, assets, and facilities around the world. As the company continues its cloud-native transformation, they are investing heavily in modern DevOps practices, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, observability, and infrastructure modernization. This is an opportunity to work across Azure, Digital Ocean, Kubernetes, TeamCity, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, and a broad cloud-native ecosystem while helping shape the future of the platform.

This is not a maintenance-focused DevOps position. We are looking for a technology enthusiast who enjoys researching new tools, automating everything possible, and driving continuous improvement. You’ll have ownership over engineering environments, deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and observability while collaborating closely with teams supporting production AKS environments. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, working directly with customers on real-world deployments, and influencing technical direction, this role offers significant visibility, autonomy, and growth opportunities., Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.