Reliability Engineer

AIS (Applied Information Sciences)

Reliability Engineer ensuring the availability and performance of cloud platforms for federal clients. Managing incident response and compliance with production requirements while leveraging extensive technical expertise.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeReston • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $138,000 - $209,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, and incident response, among other things, of the cloud platforms and services.
Ensure that everything that goes to production complies with a set of general requirements like diagrams, dependencies of other services, monitoring and logging plans, backups and possible high availability setups.
Manages uncaught exceptions, hardware degradation, networking problems, high usage of resources, or slow responses that could happen at any time.
Uses metrics such as mean time to recover (MTTR) and mean time to failure (MTTF).
Considered an emerging authority, who applies extensive technical expertise.
Develops technical solutions to complex problems.
Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignment.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
8+ years of relevant experience supporting enterprise cloud and/or infrastructure environments.
Certifications: IAT-2, 1 or more cloud certifications.
Active Secret clearance (or higher).
Experience working in regulated environments and following secure engineering / documentation practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salaries
Qualified Overtime
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Flexible Holiday Leave (88 hours per year)
Parental Leave
Immediate Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
401(k) Retirement Plan (5% match on base compensation, immediate 100% vesting)
Tuition Reimbursement & Learning Allowance
Referral Bonus Program (up to $5k)

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud platformsincident responsemonitoringlogginghigh availabilitymean time to recover (MTTR)mean time to failure (MTTF)technical solutionsperformance managementresource management

Soft Skills

technical expertiseproblem solvingdecision makingobjective determinationlatitude in approaches

Certifications

IAT-2cloud certifications