Cloud Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client seeking a Cloud Engineer to join their team in New York. The Cloud Engineer would be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure cloud infrastructure within AWS. This role is focused on cloud engineering, automation, and platform reliability to support modern applications and data platforms.

What Success Looks Like:
* Builds and manages scalable, secure AWS infrastructure
* Automates deployments and reduces manual operational overhead
* Improves system reliability, monitoring, and performance
* Acts as a strong partner to application and engineering teams

REQUIREMENTS:
* Experience designing and deploying highly available, scalable AWS environments
* Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns
* Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration via ECS or EKS
* Able to automate provisioning, deployments, and operational tasks
* Strong scripting skills
* Familiarity with Git-based workflows and version control

Strong hands-on experience across the AWS ecosystem:
* Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS
* Storage/Data: S3, EBS, DynamoDB, RDS
* Networking & Security: VPCs, IAM, Security Groups, API Gateway, CloudFront
* Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation and/or Terraform

Cloud Engineering & Infrastructure (Primary Focus):
* Build, automate, and manage cloud infrastructure in AWS
* Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable deployments
* Design resilient, fault-tolerant systems for production environments
* Optimize cloud environments for cost, performance, and scalability
* Support application teams with cloud design, architecture, and deployments
* Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools or similar

Monitoring, Reliability & Security:
* Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting:
* CloudWatch
* Ensure system reliability, uptime, and performance
* Apply AWS security best practices
* Support incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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