Self-Healing Cloud SRE - AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes, Remote

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

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.