Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to work in our Arlington, VA office/remotely.
About the Role
This role owns reliability and operational readiness for production systems across our federal cloud platform (AWS GovCloud, IL5 zero-trust). You'll define what "reliable enough" looks like for our services, build the automation that gets us there, and do it all on an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) foundation.
Responsibilities
Self-Healing Operations
• 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
Uptime Goals & Reliability
• 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
Infrastructure
• 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
Observability & Incidents
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing (Datadog, Splunk) 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
Collaboration & Leadership
• Partner with development and contractor teams leads to embed reliability and automation across the software
• Mentor engineers toward this same automation-first philosophy
• Support ATO/RMF and FedRAMP High compliance as it relates to infrastructure and automation
Salary Range: $130,000 - $180,000
General Description of Benefit
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of SRE experience (or equivalent), 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