Secret AWS Platforms Site Reliability Engineer

Insight Global; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platforms Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and improve an AWS GovCloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads for multiple coalition Mission Partner Network enclaves in support of the DoW community.

This role emphasizes infrastructure reliability, HA/DR, and IaC with Terraform, working across cloud, security, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure production environments remain scalable, secure, and resilient.

Qualifications

• > Active DoD Secret security clearance.
• > 5+ years of experience in related role (or 9+ years with HS diploma).
• > Ability to obtain DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ within 60 days of hire.
• > Hybrid work ability in Fairfax, VA (in-office up to 3 days).
• > Strong experience building highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infra with Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Support HA/DR, including automated failover, backups, and geographic resiliency.
• Lead automation to reduce manual administration and configuration drift.
• Develop and validate SLIs/SLOs, RTOs, and RPOs; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Create and maintain docs, runbooks, and recovery procedures.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Site Reliability Engineering

Incident response

Monitoring/Observability

Security/compliance knowledge

Collaboration across teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

High School Diploma with 9+ years of experience

Tools

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

AWS GovCloud

Job description

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platforms Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve an AWS GovCloud 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.

Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.Support and maintain 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.Support 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.

Skills and Requirements

Active DoD Secret security clearance.Bachelors in a related field of study and 5+ years of experience. Alternatively, High School Diploma and 9+ years of relevant experience.Ability to obtain DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher) within 60 days of hire (Active is preferred).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.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.Ability to work effectively across infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, platform engineering, and application teams.Strong understanding of cloud reliability, resiliency, scalability, and operational best practices.Preference given to candidate with 1 or more of the following certifications:AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – AssociateDOP‑C02 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - ProfessionalDemonstrated experience administering and engineering cloud infrastructure in production environments.Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.Experience with the following:Developing and maintaining infrastructure automation for provisioning and operational tasks.Monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.Supporting enterprise‑scale, regulated, or government environments.Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture and implementation.Strong operational troubleshooting, incident response, and root‑cause analysis skills.Familiarity with security, compliance, vulnerability management, and governance requirements in cloud environments.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].