Description
Leidos is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Lead to join their Defense Enclave Services (DES) team, supporting a critical digital modernization program for the Department of Defense (DoD) and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
The Senior Cloud Engineer will design, develop, configure, and deploy IaaS/PaaS and SaaS services within the Azure Cloud to meet end-user requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Provide thought leadership and mentoring to a team of cloud engineers, collaborating with technical team leads and solutions engineers.
- Design and deploy system architecture for IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services in the Azure Cloud.
- Contribute to the design of the enterprise's cloud and mission architecture.
- Evaluate and support application architectures across platforms to ensure alignment with cloud and application modernization strategies.
- Identify opportunities for improvement, focusing on user experience, efficiency, and cost reduction.
- Enforce security best practices and guidelines, leveraging knowledge of security policies and data security.
- Scale cloud solutions and migrate data center capabilities to the cloud, supporting approximately 400k users.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 12+ years of prior relevant experience.
- Experience managing teams of engineers, including mentoring and fostering communication and collaboration.
- Expertise designing, deploying, and operating solutions built on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience with Identity Access Management (IDAM), AzureAD, and CyberArk, Okta, or other modern ICAM solutions.
- Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements such as NIST, FedRAMP, and FISMA.
- Ability to work effectively within a distributed technical team, aided by strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Current IAT Level II (or higher) Certification such as Security+ or CISSP.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Recognized cloud certification, such as Microsoft Azure Associate Administrator.
- Familiarity with the Atlassian suite, including Jira and Confluence.
Benefits: No specific benefits mentioned.
Pay Range: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00