Terraform-Driven Azure Gov Cloud Reliability Engineer

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

Job summary

Everforth ECS seeks an experienced Cloud Platforms Engineer in Fairfax, VA, to design, operate, and continuously improve Azure Government cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads for coalition enclaves.

Focus on reliability, HA, DR, and IaC with Terraform as a primary tool; collaboration across security, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure scalable, secure, and sustainable production environments.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of related work experience.
• Ability to obtain DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ within 60 days of hire.
• Hybrid capacity in Fairfax, VA (up to 3 days in office).
• Travel <20% across CONUS/OCONUS sites.
• Strong experience designing, deploying, and supporting highly available, fault‑tolerant cloud infra.
• Hands‑on Terraform and IaC provisioning and management.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC principles.
• Architect and implement HA and DR solutions including automated failover, backups, restoration, and geographic resiliency.
• Manage the complete lifecycle of cloud infrastructure (provisioning, config, OS/PL maintenance, patches, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, decommissioning).
• Develop automation for infra deployment and routine operational activities to reduce manual tasks and drift.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability to identify degradation and potential disruptions.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshoot, and perform root‑cause analysis for production events.
• Define and maintain infrastructure reliability standards (SLIs/SLOs, availability targets, RTOs, RPOs).
• Develop and validate disaster recovery procedures through exercises and tests.

Skills

Terraform

Cloud architecture

HA/DR design

Automation

Monitoring/Observability

Incident response

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Everforth ECS seeks an experienced Cloud Platforms Engineer in Fairfax, VA, to design, operate, and continuously improve Azure Government cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads for coalition enclaves.

Focus on reliability, HA, DR, and IaC with Terraform as a primary tool; collaboration across security, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure scalable, secure, and sustainable production environments.