Kforce has a client in Charlotte, NC that is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their Public and Private Cloud Solutioning team. Summary: This mid-level role focuses on solutioning for business units, guiding infrastructure decisions to ensure the best outcomes for application performance, cost, and scalability. The ideal candidate will have experience working with multiple public cloud providers, with a primary focus on AWS, along with a strong foundation in private cloud infrastructure. This role emphasizes evaluating and recommending solutions to optimize workloads, whether on private or public cloud, and determining the best architectural approaches for applications. Cloud and Infrastructure Solutioning: * Collaborate with business units to evaluate application needs and determine the best deployment model: public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid * Provide guidance on architectural decisions, such as selecting serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda) or container-based solutions based on business and application requirements * Assess and recommend cloud environments and infrastructure options to meet migration goals, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency Cloud Environment Evaluation: * Evaluate applications to determine the best cloud solution, whether utilizing AWS EC2, EKS, serverless services, or private cloud virtualization * Guide workload optimization by analyzing trade-offs between virtualized environments and serverless architectures * Perform assessments to ensure applications are appropriately sized for resource and budget requirements Hybrid Cloud Strategy and Integration: * Ensure seamless integration of applications across on-premises and public cloud environments * Support private cloud infrastructure, including hypervisors, DNS, firewalls, load balancers, and virtualization technologies * Optimize networking solutions