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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment
- **Location:** Princeton, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Computer Networks, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Scripting, Load Balancing, Okta, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Cloudwatch, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d4a76dd5935e71fe

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.
 * 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes app manifests (Kustomize/ Helm), networking, and GitOps for Kubernetes.
 * Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, Load Balancers, S3, VPC, RDS, ECS, CloudWatch) and on-prem.
 * Proficiency in scripting languages: Shell, Bash, and Python.
 * Bonus points for experience in financial services or trading environments, but not required.

## Description

They are searching or a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of their administering Kubernetes clusters and onboarding applications across both on-prem and cloud environments. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement secure identity and access workflows, and establish observability, networking, and storage tooling for the platform. The position also involves automating operational processes, troubleshooting complex incidents, and contributing to SRE practices while collaborating closely with network, security, and application teams., * Lead end-to-end Kubernetes application onboarding, including environment preparation, production-readiness assessments, and ongoing operational support across EKS and on-prem clusters.

 * Implement secure access patterns, designing and managing authentication and authorization workflows using Keycloak and AWS IAM.
 * Build and maintain CI/CD automation, creating Jenkins pipelines for container image builds and integrating with multiple image registries.
 * Develop and support platform observability and infrastructure tooling, covering monitoring, container storage, and networking components.
 * Handle incident response and SRE practices, including root cause analysis, documentation, SLIs, error budgets, alerting improvements, and participation in on?call rotations.


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