Sr Cloud Reliability Test Engineer

Role:
Sr Cloud Reliability Test Engineer

Location:

St. Louis, MO (Onsite) Position Type:
Contract Job Description

• As a Cloud Reliability Test Engineer, you will own the enterprise reliability testing strategy and governance across cloud services, setting standards and release criteria aligned to SLAs/SLOs and define a multi-year roadmap for resiliency, performance, and observability. You will establish organization-wide benchmarks and guardrails to ensure consistent test coverage and deployment gates, align cross-functional leaders on reliability goals and risk management for critical user journeys, and provide executive KPIs and scorecards that drive accountability for availability, latency, MTTR, and error budget adherence.
• This role balances hands‑on technical work (20%) with strategic leadership (80%). You will oversee incident readiness to ensure corrective actions deliver measurable improvements, evaluate and standardize tooling and reference architectures, and lead enablement and maturity uplift through playbooks, training, and a community of practice, influencing quarterly and annual planning with reliability posture, risk assessments, and ROI on reliability investments.
• Initially, you will focus on establishing chaos testing capabilities, challenging cloud architecture designs, and mentoring QA teams in advanced testing practices. As these foundations mature, you will expand to own the enterprise reliability testing strategy, setting organization‑wide standards, benchmarks, and release criteria aligned to SLAs/SLOs.

• 5+ years QA, 3+ years cloud/Dev Ops
• Terraform
• On‑prem + public cloud (AWS or GCP)
• Performance/load testing
• Observability tools (Splunk, Datadog, App Dynamics)