Platform Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES: 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. 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