AWS Cloud Reliability Engineer — Terraform & HA/DR

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platforms Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve a resilient Azure Government cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads for DoD partners.

The role focuses on infrastructure reliability, automation, and IaC with Terraform, including HA/DR, monitoring, incident response, and documentation, collaborating with security, DevOps, and platform teams in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Ensure HA/DR readiness with automated failover and backups.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for provisioning cloud resources.
• Active DoD Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.
• Hybrid in-office work in Fairfax, VA up to 3 days.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure with Terraform and IaC.
• Support and maintain HA and DR solutions, including automated failover, backups, and geographic resiliency.
• Manage full lifecycle of cloud infrastructure: provisioning, patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, decommissioning.
• Develop and implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Create and maintain infrastructure documentation, runbooks, and recovery procedures.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Automation

Incident response

SRE concepts

Communication

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platforms Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve a resilient Azure Government cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads for DoD partners.

The role focuses on infrastructure reliability, automation, and IaC with Terraform, including HA/DR, monitoring, incident response, and documentation, collaborating with security, DevOps, and platform teams in a hybrid work model.