AWS Cloud Platforms Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Hybrid role in Fairfax, Virginia, United States, with up to 3 days in the office.

Salary: $140,000–$180,000 annually

Company

Everforth hirify.global is the federal segment of Everforth, delivering technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation for defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and fault-tolerant AWS GovCloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Implement and operate High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, including redundancy, automated failover, backups, restoration, and geographic resiliency.
• Manage the cloud infrastructure lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities for production infrastructure.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, recovery exercises, and failover testing.
• Partner with application development, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to define resilient architectures, reliability standards, documentation, and operational procedures.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 5+ years of experience, or a high school diploma with 9+ years of relevant experience.
• Ability to obtain DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ or higher within 60 days of hire.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, automation, monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
• Experience with High Availability, Disaster Recovery, incident response, SRE concepts, infrastructure lifecycle management, and production troubleshooting.

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certification.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale, regulated, or government environments.
• Familiarity with cloud security, compliance, vulnerability management, and governance requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven work supporting defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.
• Environment focused on innovation, accountability, and delivery excellence.
• Opportunities to work with high-performing teams across infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, application development, and platform engineering.