Senior Cloud Engineer Observability Platform

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer - Observability Platform in Smithfield, RI.

Key Tasks:

• Create and maintain Grafana dashboards, visualizations, and alerts for real-time operational insights
• Hands-on designing and building scalable and resilient applications in the cloud* 5+ years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
• 5+ years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture
• Experience choosing/modeling the right technique for the job (e.g., anomaly detection, ranking/recommendation, NLP), and knowing when a heuristic beats a model
• Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments
• Hands-on experience in 2 or more languages (Python, Java, Go etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Open Telemetry (OTEL) or any opensource Observability implementations
• Hands-on experience designing and building scalable and resilient applications in the cloud
• Good knowledge on networking concepts such as DNS, Load Balancers, routers, Linux, etc.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience in deploying applications in AWS platforms such as EC2 and EKS or equivalent platforms from any other cloud provider such as GCP, Azure, etc.
• Experience delivering software using engineering best practices and principles
• Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CFT, CDK, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment using ALM tools such as Jenkins

Bonus skills:

• Proven experience delivering LLM/agent features to production (prompting, tooling, evals, safety/guardrails)
• Experience working on Logging, Metrics, and Tracing frameworks and understanding of Logging and Metrics Data Models