Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Kforce Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot production workloads on AWS, EKS, and Kubernetes. You will drive platform-infrastructure activities and technology lifecycle management, while improving resilience, observability, and automation across teams.

The role requires strong hands-on AWS and Kubernetes experience, proficiency in Python/Java/Go, and the ability to coordinate with cross-functional groups.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud engineering and production workloads.
• Experience deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability, automation, CI/CD pipelines, application migration, and operational troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with enterprise operational, security, access, and infrastructure-governance requirements.
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, or Go.
• Ability to work independently and coordinate across application, platform, and infrastructure teams.
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Independently design, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot production workloads on AWS, EKS, and Kubernetes.
• Execute assigned DevOps, platform-infrastructure, and Technology Lifecycle Management activities.
• Assess and remediate application resilience and observability gaps across logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting.
• Develop and maintain automation, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and platform integrations using Python, Java, and/or Go.
• Execute assigned application onboarding and migration activities to the Application Platform.
• Resolve complex cross-functional blockers across application, platform, and infrastructure teams.
• Develop and review runbooks, operational playbooks, and technical procedures.
• Provide support and knowledge transfer to application teams and support junior engineers on assigned activities.
• Follow operational, security, access, and infrastructure standards.
• Participate in the defined rotation or shift-based coverage model.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Programming (Python/Java/Go)

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Kforce is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot production workloads on AWS, EKS, and Kubernetes. You will drive platform-infrastructure activities and technology lifecycle management, while improving resilience, observability, and automation across teams.

The role requires strong hands-on AWS and Kubernetes experience, proficiency in Python/Java/Go, and the ability to coordinate with cross-functional groups.