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Remote Senior Platform Engineer
Kforce • Long Island City, NY
No Relocation
Posted: September 25, 2026
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure in production environments
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices
- Build and maintain cloud networking, compute, storage, database, container, and integration services
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure and application deployments
- Administer containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based environments
- Support cloud operations, including troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and change management
- Implement cloud security, governance, identity, compliance, and cost-management controls
- Design highly available and resilient environments that support disaster recovery and business continuity requirements
- Implement monitoring, alerting, autoscaling, and automated remediation capabilities
- Develop scripts and automation solutions to reduce manual processes and improve operational efficiency
- Monitor cloud performance, availability, capacity, and service health
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, operational procedures, and technical support materials
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to support deployments, knowledge transfer, and production readiness
- Participate in on-call support for critical production environments as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting Azure cloud infrastructure in production environments
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with cloud automation and scripting using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies
- Hands-on experience deploying and supporting containers and Kubernetes environments
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, security, identity, and modern application architecture
- Experience implementing cloud governance, access controls, compliance requirements, and cost optimization practices
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity concepts
- Experience with cloud monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting solutions
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills
- Experience supporting complex, business-critical cloud environments
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills