Senior Cloud Platform Engineeer

Chicago, IllinoisHybridContract$63/hr - $73/hrJoin a technology-driven SaaS organization modernizing mission-critical infrastructure while solving complex data, security, privacy, and reliability challenges at scale. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll take substantial hands-on ownership of AWS cloud architecture, Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure automation, and the migration of critical applications and data from legacy on-premises environments to cloud-native services. You’ll design secure, resilient, and cost-conscious infrastructure supporting high-throughput transactional and event-driven workloads, with a strong focus on EKS, Terraform, observability, CI/CD, and operational resilience. This is a hybrid onsite contractor position, requiring regular in-person collaboration alongside remote engineering work.Required Skills & Experience7–8+ years of Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience, experience designing resilient AWS environments should include multi-region architecture, failover, disaster recovery, and infrastructure cost optimization. Proven experience engineering large-scale distributed, transactional, or event-driven systems, including operational understanding of scalability, idempotency, replay strategies, backpressure, and failure recovery, with experience implementing security and compliance controls aligned to frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC. Desired Skills & ExperienceExperience designing, migrating, or operating modern data platforms and lakehouse architectures, including open table formats and the movement of mission-critical applications and data from on-premises infrastructure into AWS. Advanced observability and production-readiness experience for complex transactional platforms, including scalable monitoring, telemetry, alerting, incident response, reliability engineering, capacity planning, and operational documentation. Daily ResponsibilitiesHands-On Engineering: 70% Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 30% Applicants must be currently authorized to work in United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.#LI-AC1You will receive the following benefits:Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your familyDental & Orthodontia BenefitsVision BenefitsHealth Savings Account (HSA)Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending AccountsVoluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability InsuranceHospital Indemnity Insurance401(k) including match with pre and post-tax optionsPaid Sick Time LeaveLegal and Identity Protection PlansPre-tax Commuter Benefit529 College Saver PlanMotion 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.