Golang Developer

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Golang Developer in Westlake, TX. Key Tasks:

• Crafting scalable solutions and automation to monitor health and establish signals to drive understanding of our Container Platform environments
• Strengthening operational processes to support and incident management teams for our cloud ecosystem
• Working with cloud service provider product teams and driving ongoing reliability improvements in their Kubernetes service offerings
• Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client/partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technology related field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required
• 5 -7 years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale
• Production experience running Cloud and on-prem Storage workloads at scale
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries
• Hands on experience with one or more observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, etc.)
• Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on EKS/AKS and RKS
• Experience managing and interpreting large datasets using query languages and visualization tools (Power BI/tableau)
• Experience in software development with Python, NodeJS, or Java with a focus on SDLC and automation
• Experience building and deploying Docker images including Docker Compose
• Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred
• Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk
• Practical experience in building cloud hosted and native applications for the enterprise. Maintains a deep understanding of a wide variety of AWS/Azure services that support reliability, observability, and automation/orchestration
• Experience in incident/crisis management and supporting critically important applications
• Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (IAM, ARM, Terraform, Chef)
• Strong background in several of the following: Go, Angular, Python, JavaScript, AWS, RESTful services, Ruby, MVC, Jenkins CI/CD, Configuration Automation (Chef, Ansible)
• Preferred background in: Bootstrap, HTML/CSS, Shell Scripting, messaging frameworks (MQ), Service Oriented/Micro-service Architectures, OpenStack, Relational Databases (PostgreSQL)