Reliability Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Reliability Engineer in Westlake, TX.

Duties:
* Crafting scalable solutions and automation to monitor the health and establish signals to drive understanding of our Container Platform environments
* Strengthening operational processes and incident management teams for our cloud ecosystem
* Working cloud service provider product teams and driving ongoing reliability improvements in their Kubernetes service offerings
* Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client/partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team

REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technology related field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required
* 5 -7 years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale
* Strong background in several of the following: Go, Angular, Python, JavaScript, AWS, RESTful services, Ruby, MVC, Jenkins CI/CD, Configuration Automation (Chef, Ansible)
* Comfortable working in both Public and private cloud environments
* Production experience running Cloud and on-prem Storage workloads at scale
* Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on EKS/AKS and RKS
* Demonstrates a drive for continuous improvement and enjoys tackling complex problems
* Experience managing and interpreting large datasets using query languages and visualization tools (Power BI/Tableau)
* Experience in software development with Python, NodeJS, or Java with a focus on SDLC and automation
* Experience building and deploying Docker images including Docker Compose
* Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries
* Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk
* Practical experience in building cloud hosted and native applications for the enterprise; Maintains a deep understanding of a wide variety of AWS/Azure services that support reliability, observability, and automation/orchestration
* Experience in incident/crisis management and supporting critically important applications
* Preferred background in: Bootstrap, HTML/CSS, Shell Scripting, messaging frameworks (MQ), Service Oriented/Micro-service Architectures, OpenStack, Relational Databases (PostgreSQL)
* Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred

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.

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