What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Application Support Engineer position at Kforce Inc?
Responsibilities
Kforce has a client that is seeking a DevOps Application Support Engineer in Maryland Heights, MO but open to seeing candidates in Charlotte as well. This role will follow a hybrid schedule and work in the office 4 days, remote 1 day. Key Tasks:
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.
By clicking “Apply Today” you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.
Kforce has a client that is seeking a DevOps Application Support Engineer in Maryland Heights, MO but open to seeing candidates in Charlotte as well. This role will follow a hybrid schedule and work in the office 4 days, remote 1 day. Key Tasks:
- Usage of Datadog or AppDynamics (or equivalent application performance monitoring (APM) tool, such as DynaTrace or New Relic) to troubleshoot and monitor application health and performance; This would include investigation of business transactions, information points, and health rules to pinpoint application problems
- Providing technical mentoring and day-to-day direction of technical staff responding to alarms, triaging issues, and escalating appropriately; Constantly striving to improve team response
- Supporting applications running in a Linux environment; Shell scripting for automation of administration tasks
- Splunk log analysis for application troubleshooting
- Technical - 10 years of experience
- Troubleshooting experience supporting applications hosted in AWS on EKS and EC2
- Automation - Experience creating and maintaining automated pipelines with tools like Gitlab and Jenkins
- Advanced Java application troubleshooting including thread and heap analysis; Understanding complex multi-application environments, which interact in a firewalled environment
- Splunk or other log analytics tool - Must be able to develop ad hoc queries on the fly to pinpoint application issues; Needs to be able to articulate search parameters and commands; Please note simple usage of prewritten queries and dashboards is not sufficient; This is not Splunk administration like rolling out agents or administering Splunk
- Comprehensive understanding of Application to Database interaction and troubleshooting; This would include Oracle and Mongo databases; Areas of understanding like JDBC connection utilization and troubleshooting, connection pool/query/cache optimization, ability to analyze DB reports like AWR and make recommendations
- Linux knowledge - Understanding of OS setting for app performance optimization, administration of Microservices, troubleshooting logging/forwarding issues
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal); Loud, clear, and easily understood by a diverse audience
- Able to convey information to leadership and technical audiences
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.
By clicking “Apply Today” you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.
Salary : $53 - $71
