100% REMOTE ROLE
Position Title: SRE/DevOps Engineer (FedRAMP High and IL5 Exp)
Location: Remote Role
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Position Type- W2 Only
Exp Level- 10+Years
Req Skills- SRE/DevOps, FedRAMP High and IL5, Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, AWS Organizations, IAM, Terraform, cloud governance, (Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages)
Role Summary
- Our SRE Cloud Foundations team is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build the secure cloud foundations required for FedRAMP High and IL5.
- This role is for an independent senior engineer who can own large features or bounded cloud foundation systems with minimal guidance.
- You will design and build AWS GovCloud foundations, account provisioning automation, service control policies, guardrails, shared Terraform modules, cloud resource standards, FinOps reporting, and compliance-oriented automation.
- You should be able to apply strong practical cloud infrastructure judgment, partner with other teams, and mentor engineers who need help navigating secure and compliant cloud adoption.
What You’ll Do
- Build and operate AWS GovCloud foundations for FedRAMP High and IL5, including AWS Organizations, Control Tower, account provisioning lifecycle, and account automation.
- Implement and maintain service control policies, landing-zone patterns, and cloud governance automation.
- Build reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and paved-road patterns that help engineering teams deploy securely and consistently.
- Support standardized cloud resource creation and management, including VPC patterns, prefix lists, IAM patterns, and account-level controls.
- Build or adapt Cloud Foundations services for federal use, including cloud account workflows, email service enablement, GCP project/key management, FinOps reporting, and cloud compliance automation.
- Partner with other teams to translate FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements into practical cloud architecture and operating models.
- Participate in responder duties, cost anomaly response, cloud support channels, operational ticket triage, and production support.
- Produce documentation, runbooks, design notes, and evidence-friendly operational records.
- Provide guidance and technical feedback to engineers adopting secure cloud patterns.
You Are an Ideal Candidate If You Have
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure software.
- Hands-on experience with AWS multi-account environments, AWS Organizations, IAM, Terraform, and cloud governance..
- Experience building automation in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages.
- Familiarity with Control Tower, Account Factory for Terraform, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Lambda, SQS, IAM Identity Center, or similar AWS platform services.
- Strong understanding of reliability, security, cost management, and developer experience tradeoffs in cloud platforms.
- Ability to partner with engineering teams as a trusted advisor while still enforcing clear cloud standards.
- Strong written communication and comfort documenting processes for audit, handoff, and operational support.
Preferred
- Experience with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, DoD IL5, FIPS, or regulated SaaS environments.
- Experience with FinOps, cloud cost reporting, guardrail platforms, compliance automation, or account provisioning workflows.
- Experience building reusable Terraform modules or paved-road cloud patterns for internal engineering teams.
