Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud Infra, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Kforce Inc; West Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce Inc in West Palm Beach, FL is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and operate production-grade automation with Ansible, Terraform and Go. The role emphasizes developing core services behind VKE/VLB (HAProxy), VCR (Container Registry) and Inference, and collaborating with product, platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery.

You will work deeply with Kubernetes internals, design container runtime integrations, architect CI/CD pipelines for large-scale systems, and harden

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong Kubernetes administration and internals knowledge (scheduler, kubelet, CRDs).
• Proficiency in Go and scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Deep knowledge of container security, image scanning and runtime isolation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade automation using Ansible, Terraform and Go.
• Develop and enhance core services behind VKE/VLB (HAProxy), VCR (Container Registry) and Inference.
• Engage deeply with Kubernetes internals (scheduler, kubelet, CRDs).
• Design, implement and improve container runtime integrations (containerd, runc, OCI).
• Architect CI/CD improvements and deployment pipelines for large-scale systems.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across networking, load balancing, containers and distributed systems.
• Harden platform infrastructure through security best practices including vulnerability scanning and secrets management.
• Contribute to open-source ecosystem (terraform provider, crossplane, vultr-cli, govultr).
• Improve reliability, observability and operability of cloud-native services.
• Collaborate with product, platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Security

Observability

Networking

Distributed systems

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Kforce Inc in West Palm Beach, FL is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and operate production-grade automation with Ansible, Terraform and Go. The role emphasizes developing core services behind VKE/VLB (HAProxy), VCR (Container Registry) and Inference, and collaborating with product, platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery.

You will work deeply with Kubernetes internals, design container runtime integrations, architect CI/CD pipelines for large-scale systems, and harden