Cloud Platforms Engineer

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA seeks an experienced Cloud Platforms Engineer to design, operate, and improve an Azure Government cloud infrastructure for mission‑critical workloads. The role focuses on reliability, HA, DR, and IaC with Terraform as a primary tool, collaborating across security, DevOps, and platform teams.

The ideal candidate combines hands‑on cloud architecture with automation‑first practices and can operate in a hybrid environment, supporting production in DoD contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related work experience.
• Ability to obtain DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ within 60 days of hire.
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity in Fairfax, VA (up to 3 days in office).
• Strong experience designing, deploying, and supporting highly available, fault‑tolerant cloud infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles for provisioning and managing cloud resources.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, fault‑tolerant cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC principles.
• Architect and implement HA and DR solutions, including automated failover, backups, and geographic resiliency.
• Manage lifecycle of cloud infrastructure: provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Develop automation for deployment and operational activities to reduce manual administration and drift.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability to detect issues before impact.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis for production events.
• Define and maintain infrastructure reliability standards (SLIs, SLOs, RTOs, RPOs).
• Validate disaster recovery procedures through exercises and testing.
• Evaluate capacity, performance, availability, scalability, and resiliency improvements.
• Collaborate with development, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform teams for standardized patterns.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and recovery procedures.

Skills

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud architecture

Automation

HA/DR Design

Observability

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Azure Government

Terraform

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking an experienced Cloud Platforms Engineer specializing in reliability and resiliency to design, operate, and continuously improve an Azure Government cloud infrastructure supporting mission‑critical workloads for multiple coalition Mission Partner Network enclaves in support of the DoW community. This position will have a strong focus on infrastructure reliability, automation, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with Terraform serving as a primary platform for provisioning and managing cloud resources. The Cloud Platforms Engineer will work across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, security, and application teams to ensure production environments remain reliable, scalable, recoverable, secure, and operationally sustainable. The ideal candidate combines a strong cloud architecture skill set with hands‑on operational experience and an automation‑first approach to infrastructure management.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, fault‑tolerant cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Architect and implement High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions, including infrastructure redundancy, automated failover, backup and restoration, geographic resiliency, and recovery procedures.
• Manage the complete lifecycle of cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration, operating system and platform maintenance, patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and decommissioning.
• Develop automation for infrastructure deployment and routine operational activities to reduce manual administration, configuration drift, and the potential for human error.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities to identify infrastructure degradation, capacity constraints, performance issues, and potential service disruptions before they impact users.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root‑cause analysis for production infrastructure events and develop corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Define and maintain infrastructure reliability standards, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), availability targets, recovery time objectives (RTOs), and recovery point objectives (RPOs).
• Develop, maintain, and regularly validate disaster recovery procedures through recovery exercises, failover testing, and infrastructure restoration testing.
• Evaluate cloud infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, and scalability and recommend architectural or operational improvements.
• Partner with application development, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to establish standardized deployment patterns and resilient cloud architectures.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, operational procedures, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and recovery procedures required to support production environments.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance regarding cloud infrastructure reliability, resiliency, automation, and operational best practices.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Salary Range

$180,000 - $210,000

General Description of Benefits

• U. S. Citizen.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related work experience.
• Ability to obtain a DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher) within 60 days of hire.
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity in Fairfax, VA (up to 3 days in office).
• Ability to travel < 20% throughout the lifespan of the Program to CONUS / OCONUS customer sites and government installations.
• Strong experience designing, deploying, and supporting highly available, fault‑tolerant cloud infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture, including redundancy, automated failover, backup and restoration, geographic resiliency, and recovery planning.
• Experience managing the full cloud infrastructure lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Strong infrastructure automation skills with an emphasis on reducing manual administration, configuration drift, and operational error.
• Experience implementing and operating monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions for production infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, including incident response, root‑cause analysis, and corrective action development.
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, availability targets, RTOs, and RPOs.
• Experience developing and validating disaster recovery procedures, including failover exercises, recovery testing, and infrastructure restoration.
• Ability to evaluate infrastructure capacity, performance, scalability, availability, and resiliency and recommend architectural or operational improvements.
• Experience working collaboratively with application development, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.
• Ability to develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, runbooks, and recovery documentation.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure security, vulnerability management, and operational best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and guidance in infrastructure reliability, resiliency, automation, and cloud operations.
• Experience supporting production, enterprise, regulated, or mission‑critical environments is highly desirable.
• Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate solution.
• Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders (from peers to end‑users to executive management).