Senior Cloud Platform Reliability Engineer

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA seeks an experienced Cloud Platforms Engineer to design, operate, and improve an Azure Government cloud infrastructure for mission‑critical workloads. The role focuses on reliability, HA, DR, and IaC with Terraform as a primary tool, collaborating across security, DevOps, and platform teams.

The ideal candidate combines hands‑on cloud architecture with automation‑first practices and can operate in a hybrid environment, supporting production in DoD contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related work experience.
• Ability to obtain DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ within 60 days of hire.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, fault‑tolerant cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC principles.
• Architect and implement HA and DR solutions, including automated failover, backups, and geographic resiliency.
• Manage lifecycle of cloud infrastructure: provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Develop automation for deployment and operational activities to reduce manual administration and drift.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability to detect issues before impact.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis for production events.
• Define and maintain infrastructure reliability standards (SLIs, SLOs, RTOs, RPOs).
• Validate disaster recovery procedures through exercises and testing.
• Evaluate capacity, performance, availability, scalability, and resiliency improvements.
• Collaborate with development, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform teams for standardized patterns.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and recovery procedures.

Skills

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud architecture

Automation

HA/DR Design

Observability

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Azure Government

Terraform

Job description

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA seeks an experienced Cloud Platforms Engineer to design, operate, and improve an Azure Government cloud infrastructure for mission‑critical workloads. The role focuses on reliability, HA, DR, and IaC with Terraform as a primary tool, collaborating across security, DevOps, and platform teams.

The ideal candidate combines hands‑on cloud architecture with automation‑first practices and can operate in a hybrid environment, supporting production in DoD contexts.