Senior Platform Reliability & Optimization Engineer

Kforce Inc; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

HSA

FSA

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a Senior Reliability & Optimization Engineer to support an enterprise client in Greenwood Village, CO. You will own platform engineering, manage Terraform modules, and oversee AWS/GitLab/CD pipelines from development through production.

The role emphasizes cost-aware scaling, monitoring with DataDog/Splunk, and incident response, with collaboration across dev teams to improve reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a related field.
• Strong hands-on AWS operations across multiple services (EKS, S3, DocumentDB, Aurora/RDS, Redis, Lambda, Route53, WAFv2, MQ).
• Experience maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines for multi-stage environments.
• Production experience with Docker/Kubernetes and containerized microservices.
• Proven incident response and root-cause analysis under SLA pressure.
• Ability to benchmark, performance-test, and optimize resource usage.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Terraform modules and audit AWS against state, reconciling drift.
• Own the health of GitLab CI/CD pipelines and enforce multi-environment deployment.
• Operate the AWS footprint (EKS, Helm, Istio; Aurora/DocumentDB/Redis; Route53, WAFv2, CloudFront; S3).
• Keep resources current and tagged; remediate vulnerabilities via IaC.
• Build, deploy, and validate releases across environments; document release notes/runbooks.
• Right-size resources to meet SLAs and optimize costs; collaborate with developers to improve performance.
• Own monitoring and alerting end-to-end (DataDog/Splunk); perform incident response and post-incident reviews.

Skills

AWS operations

CI/CD pipelines

Containerized microservices

Incident response

Performance optimization

Observability

GitLab workflows

Terraform / IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

DataDog

Splunk

Job description

Kforce is seeking a Senior Reliability & Optimization Engineer to support an enterprise client in Greenwood Village, CO. You will own platform engineering, manage Terraform modules, and oversee AWS/GitLab/CD pipelines from development through production.

The role emphasizes cost-aware scaling, monitoring with DataDog/Splunk, and incident response, with collaboration across dev teams to improve reliability and performance.