Digital Site Reliability Engineer - Remote at Kforce Inc in Jacksonville, Florida

Job Description:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

A client with Kforce is seeking a Digital Site Reliability Engineer to join their team remotely.

Summary:
The Digital Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for providing high-level consulting services to clients and preparing programming assignments. The candidate designs, plans and supervises implementation of complex, large-scale system projects. This person reviews, analyzes, and modifies programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging, and installing for a complex, large-scale computer system.

Reporting to the Head of DevOps Engineering, the Site Reliability Engineer will play a critical role in driving innovation and growth for the Banking Solutions business. In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's digital transformation journey, drive customer-centric innovation and automation, and position the organization as a leader in the competitive digital banking landscape.

Duties Include:

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications and services, focusing on minimizing downtime, optimizing response times, and maintaining high availability for users


• Lead incident response efforts for incidents, including identification, triage, resolution, and post-incident analysis to prevent recurrence and improve system resilience


• Develop and maintain monitoring solutions and alerting mechanisms for infrastructure, application performance, and user experience metrics, enabling proactive issue detection and mitigation


• Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization for environments, collaborating with development and operations teams to meet scalability and performance goals


• Collaborate with security teams to implement security best practices, perform vulnerability assessments, and ensure compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements for applications

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in a related area


• 7-10 years with 6-8 years of full life cycle development experience and 5-7 years of programming and system design experience in financial services or a related industry in directly related progressively responsible positions; Or equivalent combination of education and experience


• Proficient in development technologies, architectures, and platforms (web, API) to understand system complexities and performance considerations


• Experience in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools for managing app infrastructure and deployments


• Knowledge of monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic) and logging frameworks (e.g., ELK Stack) for real-time visibility into system health, performance metrics, and user experience


• Experience in incident management, including incident response, triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortem reviews to prevent recurring issues


• Experience in implementing continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for apps using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps


• Expertise in setting up monitoring solutions, configuring alerts, and creating dashboards to monitor system performance, application metrics, and user experience


• Familiarity with APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tools to analyze app performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize resource utilization

Developer skills needed:

• Java


• Spring framework


• RESTful API services


• API security/endpoint protection


• Docker/Kubernetes


• Oracle, MongoDB


• Apache Kafka


• Agile experience

Added bonus if you have:

• Experience using Atlassian tools (Jira, Bit-Bucket)


• Experience working with cloud-based technologies


• Knowledge of the banking industry


• Working knowledge of multiple IDEs and debug utilities


• Working knowledge of test-driven development

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless
and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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