Platform Engineer

Kforce Inc.

Saint Louis, MO

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$55–$65
SKILLS
Access Control, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Bash Scripting, Budgeting, Business Operations, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Computer Science, Corrective Action, DevOps, Documentation, Enterprise Applications, Follow Through, GitHub, Identify Issues, Identity Data Management, Incident Response, Information Technology & Information Systems, Legal, Machine Tool, Metrics, Microsoft Windows Azure, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Network Monitoring, Production Systems, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Reliability Engineering, Reporting Dashboards, Root Cause Analysis, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Short Messaging Service (SMS), Software Engineering, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Systems Engineering, Systems Reliability, Windows PowerShell
LOCATION
Saint Louis, MO
POSTED
5 days ago
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Platform Engineer in Saint Louis, MO. Key Responsibilities: Reliability Architecture & Systems Design:
  • Improve the reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and operability of enterprise applications, platforms, and cloud services
  • Partner with engineering teams to define practical SLOs, SLIs, error budget thinking, service health measures, and production readiness practices
  • Review designs and implementations for failure tolerance, observability, recovery, capacity, and operational readiness
  • Influence architecture decisions with reliability, resilience, and operability as first-class concerns
Service Ownership & Operational Excellence:
  • Establish and maintain practical service health practices in partnership with application and platform teams
  • Strengthen observability using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or comparable tooling
  • Participate in the incident lifecycle, including triage, troubleshooting, coordination, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and reliability follow-through
  • Champion blameless incident learning and ensure findings are converted into durable reliability improvements
Automation & Engineering Enablement:
  • Design and implement automation-first solutions that reduce toil and manual operational work
Build and evolve tooling for:
  • Deployment safety and release confidence
  • Observability, including metrics, logs, and traces
  • Incident detection, response, and recovery
  • Use approved AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex responsibly in day-to-day delivery, and share practical patterns that accelerate reliability improvements, troubleshooting, documentation, and automation
Scale, Performance & Resilience:
  • Identify and address reliability, scalability, performance, and operability risks across applications, platforms, and shared services

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience
  • 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, systems engineering, or a related technology role
  • Experience improving reliability, availability, observability, performance, or operability of production systems in cloud or enterprise environments
  • Strong automation skills using at least one scripting language, such as: PowerShell; Bash; Python
Cloud & Platform Technologies:
  • Experience with Azure or a comparable cloud environment, including managed services, identity, networking, monitoring, and operational practices
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containerized runtimes, managed application platforms, or similar enterprise hosting environments
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, preferably Terraform, or equivalent tools used to provision and manage cloud infrastructure
  • Working knowledge of platform security fundamentals, including identity, access control, secrets management, secure configuration, and policy-driven controls
Observability & Reliability Practices:
  • Experience with reliability practices, including Metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and service health monitoring; Incident response, root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and runbooks; SLOs, SLIs, production readiness, resilience, and reliability improvement
  • Experience with GitHub or comparable source control workflows that support reliable delivery, including branching strategies, code review practices, workflow automation, and release safety
  • Ability to translate incident learning and operational signals into practical reliability improvements

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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About the Company

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Kforce Inc.

Kforce is a solutions firm specializing in technology, finance and accounting, and professional staffing services. Our KNOWLEDGEforce® empowers top companies to achieve their digital transformation goals. We curate teams of technical experts who deliver solutions custom-tailored to each client’s needs. These scalable, flexible outcomes are shaped by deep market knowledge, thought leadership and our multi-industry expertise.

 

Our integrated approach is rooted in 60 years of proven success deploying highly skilled professionals on a temporary and direct-hire basis. Each year, approximately 18,000 talented experts work with the Fortune 500 and other leading companies. Together, we deliver Great Results Through Strategic Partnership and Knowledge Sharing®.

COMPANY SIZE
1,000 to 1,499 employees
INDUSTRY
Financial Services
FOUNDED
1962
WEBSITE
http://www.kforce.com/