Senior Platform & DevOps Lead for Enterprise Modernization

Kforce Inc; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce Inc. is seeking a seasoned DevOps/Platform Lead to define and enforce modern platform engineering standards across release enablement, operations readiness, and modernization programs.

The role aligns architecture, engineering, QA, security, and platform teams to accelerate delivery while improving reliability. Heavy emphasis on governance, automation, and cross-functional client workshops.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Release Engineering experience.
• Consulting or client-facing transformation experience.
• Experience leading enterprise modernization programs.
• Experience driving organizational DevOps adoption and maturity.

Responsibilities

• Owns platform strategy and engineering standards.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Business outcomes focus

Mentoring distributed teams

Tools

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Docker

EKS

ECS

Wiz

Veracode

SonarQube

Dynatrace

PagerDuty

Elastic/OpenSearch

LogicMonitor

AIOps

Automated incident correlation

Job description

Kforce Inc. is seeking a seasoned DevOps/Platform Lead to define and enforce modern platform engineering standards across release enablement, operations readiness, and modernization programs.

The role aligns architecture, engineering, QA, security, and platform teams to accelerate delivery while improving reliability. Heavy emphasis on governance, automation, and cross-functional client workshops.