Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

ECS; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability for production systems in our Arlington, VA area with optional remote work. You will define reliability metrics, build automation, and enforce IaC practices across AWS GovCloud and Kubernetes environments.

You will drive incident response, SLOs, and postmortems, collaborating with federal teams and contractors while advancing an automation-first culture and security compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of SRE experience with demonstrated technical leadership
• 10 years of general work experience
• Track record building self-healing/auto-remediating systems, not just dashboards
• Jenkins experience
• Expert AWS knowledge, GovCloud experience strongly preferred
• Deep Kubernetes and Terraform expertise at production scale
• Strong software engineering background (Python and/or Go)
• Experience operating observability platforms (Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, Loki, etc.)
• Proven incident command and postmortem experience
• Strong communication skills across technical and federal leadership audiences
• Ability to obtain/maintain required government clearance or suitability (CAC/PIV as applicable)
• US Citizenship

Responsibilities

• Design and build automated remediation so systems detect, respond to, and recover from failure without manual intervention
• Shift the team’s posture from “is it running, how do we fix it” to “how do we make it fix itself”
• Automate service restoration first; investigate root cause after
• Define reasonable, data-driven SLOs and error budgets for critical services alongside the teams that own them
• Use live metrics to decide what’s “reliable enough” and where to invest next
• Enforce infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code, no manual tech change
• Own Terraform standards and reusable modules adopted across programs
• Drive a containerization-first approach with production-scale Kubernetes (multi-tenancy, security policies, advanced scheduling)
• Set CI/CD and pipeline-as-code standards, including progressive delivery
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing that gives automation the signal it needs to self-correct
• Own the incident framework: escalation, restoration, root cause analysis, and post-incident review that closes the loop with more automation
• Partner with development and contractor teams leads to embed reliability and automation
• Mentor engineers toward this automation-first philosophy
• Support ATO/RMF and FedRAMP High compliance as it relates to infrastructure and automation

Skills

SRE experience

Jenkins

AWS GovCloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python/Go

Observability tools

Incident command

Communication skills

US Citizenship

Clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Loki

Job description

Job Description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to work in our Arlington, VA office/remotely. We believe the job of an SRE is to engineer the cloud to run itself. That means writing software and automation that lets systems detect and recover from failure on their own, rather than relying on someone to notice an alert and manually fix it. When something breaks, self-healing comes first, deep root-cause debugging happens after service is restored, not instead of it. We’re looking for someone who automates the operational task by default, not documents the runbook for doing it by hand.

About The Role

This role owns reliability and operational readiness for production systems across our federal cloud platform (AWS GovCloud, IL5 zero-trust). You’ll define what “reliable enough” looks like for our services, build the automation that gets us there, and do it all on an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) foundation.

Responsibilities

Self-Healing Operations

• Design and build automated remediation so systems detect, respond to, and recover from failure without manual intervention


• Shift the team’s posture from “is it running, how do we fix it” to “how do we make it fix itself”


• Automate service restoration first; investigate root cause after

Uptime Goals & Reliability

• Define reasonable, data-driven SLOs and error budgets for critical services alongside the teams that own them


• Use live metrics to decide what’s “reliable enough” and where to invest next

Infrastructure

• Enforce infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code, no manual tech change


• Own Terraform standards and reusable modules adopted across programs


• Drive a containerization-first approach with production-scale Kubernetes (multi-tenancy, security policies, advanced scheduling)


• Set CI/CD and pipeline-as-code standards, including progressive delivery

Observability & Incidents

• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing (Datadog, Splunk) that gives automation the signal it needs to self-correct


• Own the incident framework: escalation, restoration, root cause analysis, and post-incident review that closes the loop with more automation

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with development and contractor teams leads to embed reliability and automation across the software


• Mentor engineers toward this same automation-first philosophy


• Support ATO/RMF and FedRAMP High compliance as it relates to infrastructure and automation

Salary Range

$130,000 - $180,000

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)


• 5+ years of SRE experience (or equivalent), with demonstrated technical leadership


• 10 years of general work experience


• Track record building self-healing/auto-remediating systems, not just dashboards


• Jenkins experience


• Expert AWS knowledge, GovCloud experience strongly preferred


• Deep Kubernetes and Terraform expertise at production scale


• Strong software engineering background (Python and/or Go)


• Experience operating observability platforms (Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, Loki, etc.)


• Proven incident command and postmortem experience


• Strong communication skills across technical and federal leadership audiences


• Ability to obtain/maintain required government clearance or suitability (CAC/PIV as applicable)


• US Citizenship

Desired Skills

• Federal government experience


• Active security clearance

EEO Statement

ECS Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

Everforth ECS

Everforth ECS is the federal segment of Everforth, a $4B global organization with over 10,000 employees. Our nearly 3,500 professionals deliver advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, serving defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies. Our work powers mission-critical outcomes, strengthens technology partnerships, and creates meaningful opportunities for our people. We are defined by a commitment to excellence in delivery, a culture of innovation, and an environment where talent can thrive and grow.

We Value

• Attracting and developing top talent and high-performing teams


• Fostering a culture that is engaging, accountable, and mission-driven

Meet the challenge. Make a difference with Everforth ECS!