_{10th November, 2026}

Role: AWS Cloud Platforms Site Reliability Engineer
 
Location: Fairfax, VA — Hybrid (up to 3 days onsite per week)
 
Job Description:
 
We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platforms Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve an AWS GovCloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads for multiple coalition Mission Partner Network enclaves in support of the DoW community. This position will have a strong focus on infrastructure reliability, automation, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with Terraform serving as a primary platform for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
 
The Cloud Platforms Engineer will work across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, security, and application teams to ensure production environments remain reliable, scalable, recoverable, secure, and operationally sustainable. The ideal candidate combines a strong cloud architecture skill set with hands- on operational experience and an automation-first approach to infrastructure management.
 
Design, deploy, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
 
Support and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions, including infrastructure redundancy, automated failover, backup and restoration, geographic resiliency, and recovery procedures.
 
Manage the complete lifecycle of cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration, operating system and platform maintenance, patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and decommissioning.
 
Support automation for infrastructure deployment and routine operational activities to reduce manual administration, configuration drift, and the potential for human error.
 
Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities to identify infrastructure degradation, capacity constraints, performance issues, and potential service disruptions before they impact users.
 
Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis for production infrastructure events and develop corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
 
Define and maintain infrastructure reliability standards, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), availability targets, recovery time objectives (RTOs), and recovery point objectives (RPOs).
 
Develop, maintain, and regularly validate disaster recovery procedures through recovery exercises, failover testing, and infrastructure restoration testing.
 
Evaluate cloud infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, and scalability and recommend architectural or operational improvements.
 
Partner with application development, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to establish standardized deployment patterns and resilient cloud architectures.
 
Maintain infrastructure documentation, operational procedures, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and recovery procedures required to support production environments.
 
Provide technical leadership and guidance regarding cloud infrastructure reliability, resiliency, automation, and operational best practices.
 
Other duties, as assigned.
 
Requirements:

• U.S. citizenship.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field of study and 5+ years of experience. Alternatively, high school diploma and 9+ years of relevant experience.
• Ability to obtain DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher) within 60 days of hire (Active is preferred).
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity in Fairfax, VA (up to 3 days in office).
• Strong experience designing, deploying, and supporting highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture, including redundancy, automated failover, backup and restoration, geographic resiliency, and recovery planning.
• Experience managing the full cloud infrastructure lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Strong infrastructure automation skills with an emphasis on reducing manual administration, configuration drift, and operational error.
• Experience implementing and operating monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions for production infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective action development.
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, availability targets, RTOs, and RPOs.
• Experience developing and validating disaster recovery procedures, including failover exercises, recovery testing, and infrastructure restoration.
• Ability to evaluate infrastructure capacity, performance, scalability, availability, and resiliency and recommend architectural or operational improvements.
• Experience working collaboratively with application development, cybersecurity, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.
• Ability to develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, runbooks, and recovery documentation.
• Ability to work effectively across infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, platform engineering, and application teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud reliability, resiliency, scalability, and operational best practices.

 
Qualifications — Preferred:

• Preference given to candidate with 1 or more of the following certifications:
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate
• DOP-C02 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• Demonstrated experience administering and engineering cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure automation for provisioning and operational tasks.
• Monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Supporting enterprise-scale, regulated, or government environments.
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture and implementation.
• Strong operational troubleshooting, incident response, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Familiarity with security, compliance, vulnerability management, and governance requirements in cloud environments.

 
Additional Details:
 
Salary: $130,000-$180,000 per year, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
 
To Apply:
 
Apply through Falcon's application page or send your current resume to recruiters@falconitss.com.

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