Platform Engineer

DescriptionKforce 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 concernsService 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 improvementsAutomation & Engineering Enablement:* Design and implement automation-first solutions that reduce toil and manual operational workBuild 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 automationScale, Performance & Resilience:* Identify and address reliability, scalability, performance, and operability risks across applications, platforms, and shared servicesRequirements* 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; PythonCloud & 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 controlsObservability & 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 improvementsJob TypeContractCompensation55 - $65