Senior Platform Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client in Boston, MA that is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer.

REQUIREMENTS:
* 10+ years of proven experience building and operating large-scale systems on AWS, with strong familiarity across foundational services including VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS, S3, KMS, Route53, and networking
* Deep experience operating containerized workloads using EKS (Kubernetes) and ECS (Fargate and EC2 launch types)
* Proficiency with Infrastructure?as?Code tools such as AWS CDK (TypeScript), Terraform, or CloudFormation to define and manage cloud environments
* Strong DevOps and platform engineering capabilities, including CI/CD pipeline design, deployment automation, release management, and environment orchestration
* Hands-on experience implementing observability-metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting-using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry
* Strong programming or scripting skills in TypeScript, Python, Go, or Bash for automation and platform tooling
* Excellent understanding of cloud security, least privilege, encryption, identity management, and zero trust principles
* Highly desirable: Experience operating multi?region, globally deployed cloud systems, including cross-region redundancy, data strategies, and regional compliance considerations
* Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide both software developers and DevOps engineers, elevating the team's cloud literacy, reliability practices, and automation mindset
* Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, security, and leadership teams
* Experience in agile development, rapid iteration cycles, and continuous improvement

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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