Senior AWS Infra Engineer | Terraform, EKS | FedRAMP Ready

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer with deep AWS, Terraform and EKS expertise to design, build, and operate secure, auditable cloud environments. You will own connectivity, routing, DNS, and security across GovCloud and commercial accounts, ensuring policy compliance and RMF/ATO readiness.

The role emphasizes infrastructure-as-code, automation, cross-team collaboration, and onboarding junior engineers while maintaining strong operational discipline and security

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining AWS Cloud infrastructure (CAWS, GovCloud, or equivalent).
• 5+ years troubleshooting hybrid/cloud network connectivity, including VPC routing, TGW, DNS, DHCP, TLS/certificates, security groups, NACLs, endpoints, and load balancers.
• 5+ years of Terraform (advanced modules, state management, policy enforcement).
• 5+ years of Kubernetes networking, ingress, CoreDNS, service exposure, node/security group behavior, and connectivity between EKS workloads and AWS/external services.
• 5+ years of infrastructure experience related to network security.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and support enterprise load-balancing and ingress patterns, including F5 or equivalent technologies, DNS, TLS/certificate paths, routing, and endpoint reachability.
• Coordinate directly with application teams, Security, stakeholders, network owners, and program leadership to resolve connectivity, access, migration, and production readiness.
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform (modules, S3/DynamoDB remote state, OPA/tfsec policy integration).
• Provision, upgrade, and manage EKS clusters, including namespaces, Helm-based add-ons (cert-manager, ESO, Confluent Operator), and IAM roles for service accounts.

Skills

AWS cloud

Terraform

EKS

Kubernetes networking

GitHub Actions

Python scripting

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree or 6 years relevant experience

Tools

OPA tfsec

Job description

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer with deep AWS, Terraform and EKS expertise to design, build, and operate secure, auditable cloud environments. You will own connectivity, routing, DNS, and security across GovCloud and commercial accounts, ensuring policy compliance and RMF/ATO readiness.

The role emphasizes infrastructure-as-code, automation, cross-team collaboration, and onboarding junior engineers while maintaining strong operational discipline and security