Senior Cloud & AI Platform Engineer

Kforce Inc; West Valley City (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer in West Valley City, UT to drive cloud and platform engineering for enterprise-scale AI and cloud-native workloads. You will shape architecture, set platform standards, and enable secure, scalable deployment across AWS and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities include defining cloud and AI strategies, leading platform engineering teams, designing enterprise-grade solutions, establishing AI platform operations standards, and advancing IaC, GitOps,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Infrastructure roles
• Extensive hands-on experience managing Kubernetes environments at enterprise scale
• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployment models
• Advanced experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK or equivalent)
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and logging solutions in large enterprise environments
• Experience building secure and reliable AI infrastructure and supporting production AI workloads

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate cloud infrastructure and AI platform strategies to technical teams, business leaders, and executive stakeholders
• Provide technical leadership for platform engineering initiatives, guiding teams on architecture, best practices, and operational excellence
• Partner with enterprise architecture and engineering teams to design and validate cloud-native solutions supporting traditional and AI workloads
• Establish standards for AI platform operations, including model lifecycle management, inference performance, resiliency, governance, and cost optimization
• Administer and optimize large-scale Kubernetes environments, including multi-cluster operations and workload orchestration
• Develop observability frameworks that provide insights into platform health, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Drive automation initiatives that improve deployment speed, platform consistency, and infrastructure scalability
• Promote Infrastructure as Code and GitOps methodologies across engineering teams

Skills

Kubernetes administration

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Python scripting

Automation engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Job description

Kforce is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer in West Valley City, UT to drive cloud and platform engineering for enterprise-scale AI and cloud-native workloads. You will shape architecture, set platform standards, and enable secure, scalable deployment across AWS and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities include defining cloud and AI strategies, leading platform engineering teams, designing enterprise-grade solutions, establishing AI platform operations standards, and advancing IaC, GitOps,