AWS Cloud Platforms Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

Design, operate, and continuously improve AWS GovCloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads across coalition Mission Partner Network enclaves for the DoW community. The role focuses on reliable, secure, and recoverable cloud platforms, using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code to automate infrastructure management. Key work includes high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, incident response, and collaboration with application, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field and at least 5 years of experience, or high school diploma and at least 9 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery, including redundancy, failover, backup and restoration, geographic resiliency, and recovery planning.
• Experience managing the cloud infrastructure lifecycle, including patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and decommissioning.
• Experience operating production infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident response, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Understanding of SRE concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, availability targets, RTOs, and RPOs.
• Ability to obtain DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ or higher within 60 days of hire; active certification preferred.
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity in Fairfax, Virginia, up to 3 days in the office.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery, including redundancy, automated failover, backups, restoration, and geographic resiliency.
• Manage cloud infrastructure through provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Automate infrastructure deployments and routine operations to reduce manual work, configuration drift, and operational errors.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for production infrastructure.
• Respond to infrastructure incidents, troubleshoot production issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and develop corrective actions.
• Define reliability standards, including SLIs, SLOs, availability targets, RTOs, and RPOs.
• Develop and validate disaster recovery procedures through failover exercises and restoration testing.
• Evaluate infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, scalability, and resiliency; recommend improvements.
• Collaborate with application development, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform engineering teams on deployment patterns and resilient architectures.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, operational procedures, runbooks, and recovery documentation.
• Provide technical guidance on cloud reliability, resiliency, automation, and operational best practices.

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