Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kforce is recruiting for a client seeking a Platform Engineer. The role focuses on building and maintaining cloud-native platform services, automation, Kubernetes and container integrations, CI/CD pipelines, and platform security and reliability.
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 controllers 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 container image signing admission controllers and secrets management
- Contribute directly to Vultr's open-source ecosystem (terraform provider crossplane vultr-cli govultr)
- Improve overall reliability observability and operability of cloud-native services
- Collaborate with product platform and infrastructure teams on feature delivery
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure
- Strong experience with Kubernetes administration and internals including scheduler kubelet and CRDs
- Proficiency in Go and scripting languages (Python Bash) for automation and tooling
- Deep knowledge of container security including image scanning runtime isolation and admission control
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform Ansible) and CI/CD pipeline design
- Familiarity with observability stack (Prometheus Grafana alerting) and incident response practices
- Excellent problem-solving skills across networking load balancing and distributed systems
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees
- HSA and FSA for eligible employees
- 401(k) for eligible employees
- Life, disability, and ADD insurance for eligible employees
- Paid time off for salaried personnel
- Paid sick leave for hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project
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