Cloud Engineer

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

Responsibilities:
* Solution design, solving key technical challenges, and mentoring the team.
* Building and supporting mission critical applications to provide the best customer experience
* Exploring new technology trends and leveraging them to simplify our data ecosystem
* Driving Innovation and leading the team to implement solutions with future thinking
* Collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver technology solutions for the business needs
* Guiding teams to improve development agility and productivity
* Resolving technical roadblocks to the team and mitigating potential risks
* Delivering system automation by setting up continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines
* Acting as a technical mentor to the team and bringing key knowledge and experience

REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technology-related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required
* 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production Kubernetes clusters (self-managed or managed services such as EKS, AKS, GKE)
* 2+ years of experience operating workloads on Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), including networking, IAM, and cost optimisation
* Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals: workload scheduling, RBAC, network policies, Helm/Kustomize, Operators, and cluster autoscaling
* Strong experience with DevOps practices and tooling: CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD / Flux GitOps), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and container image management (Docker, container registries)
* Proven ability to build and maintain self-service developer platforms and golden-path templates on Kubernetes
* Strong knowledge of observability: metrics (PrometheGrafana), logging (ELK / OpenSearch), and distributed tracing
* Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateway patterns.
* Solid experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM)
* Strong technical design and analysis skills; ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a fast-paced environment
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with strong collaboration skills across multiple teams

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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