Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ECS is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability and operational readiness for production systems across its federal cloud platform. The role focuses on building self-healing automation, defining reliability goals, managing infrastructure as code, operating Kubernetes and CI/CD platforms, improving observability, leading incident response, and supporting federal compliance.
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 (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
- 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
Skills
- * 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
- * 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
- * Expert AWS knowledge, GovCloud experience strongly preferred
Benefits
- Work in our Arlington, VA office/remotely
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