Cloud SRE: Self-Healing, IaC, Kubernetes & GovCloud

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

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Arlington/remote is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to own reliability for production systems on AWS GovCloud, IL5 zero-trust, with an IaC foundation using Terraform and Kubernetes. The role emphasizes self-healing automation, data-driven SLOs, and scalable infrastructure.

You will define reliability metrics, implement CI/CD, and operate across observability platforms while guiding teams toward automation and government compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• 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

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

Skills

SRE leadership

Automation

Self-healing systems

Communication

Incident management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS GovCloud

Grafana

Splunk

Prometheus

Loki

Python

Go

Job description

Everforth ECS in Arlington/remote is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to own reliability for production systems on AWS GovCloud, IL5 zero-trust, with an IaC foundation using Terraform and Kubernetes. The role emphasizes self-healing automation, data-driven SLOs, and scalable infrastructure.

You will define reliability metrics, implement CI/CD, and operate across observability platforms while guiding teams toward automation and government compliance requirements.