Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at ECS in ARLINGTON, VA
- Company: ECS
- Location: ARLINGTON, VA
- Posted: Sep 19, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $130,000 - $180,000
- Experience: 10+ years
Overview
Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to work in our Arlington, VA office/remotely. 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…
Job description
- Everforth ECS is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to work in our Arlington, VA office/remotely.
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- Federal government experience
- Active security clearance
Skills
Required
- Jenkins
- AWS (expert level)
- Kubernetes (production scale)
- Terraform (production scale)
- Python and/or Go
- Incident command and postmortem
- Strong communication skills
- US Citizenship
Preferred
- GovCloud experience
- Federal government experience
- Active security clearance
Benefits
- General Description of Benefit
- Salary Range: $130,000 - $180,000
About ECS
We believe the job of an SRE is to engineer the cloud to run itself. That means writing software and automation that lets systems detect and recover from failure on their own, rather than relying on someone to notice an alert and manually fix it. When something breaks, self-healing comes first, deep root-cause debugging happens after service is restored, not instead of it. We’re looking for someone who automates the operational task by default, not documents the runbook for doing it by hand. Everforth ECS is the federal segment of Everforth, a $4B global organization with over 10,000 employees. Our nearly 3,500 professionals deliver advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, serving defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies. Our work powers mission-critical outcomes, strengthens technology partnerships, and creates meaningful opportunities for our people. We are defined by a commitment to excellence in delivery, a culture of innovation, and an environment where talent can thrive and grow.