Leidos is looking for an AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to develop scalable cloud-native solutions and ensure best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security. This is a hands-on technical role focused on a multi-cloud environment supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness through cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance.
What You'll Do
- Provide cloud operations and engineering tasks to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for the AWS cloud environment.
- Perform AWS cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance activities to maintain optimum cloud performance, security, and cloud user experience.
- Develop cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with organization objectives and technical requirements.
- Continuously evaluate emerging cloud technologies to maximize automation and perform assessments of the potential impact on organizational and program goals.
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
- Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments.
- Support design, implementation and sustainment of secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards like SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS and regulatory requirements.
- Architect, implement and maintain cloud networking security controls including STIG requirements.
- Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
- Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption.
- Assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies including containerization and microservices.
- Support development of migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions.
- Manage and optimize cloud AWS environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code development using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices.
- Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency.
- Support the design and development of Shared Services.
- Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.
- Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability.
- Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.
- Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience; Master's degree and 6+ years of experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
- Active Secret Clearance is required.
- Certification: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2).
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Ability to lead and participate in team efforts to accomplish assigned tasks.
- Demonstrated experience in cloud operations and sustainment and performing tasks and actions described in the primary responsibilities section.
Nice to Have
- Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1.
- Experience with Zero Trust Architecture.
- Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position.
- Strong understanding of Active Directory, AWS AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes.
- Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, AWS, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket and various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
- Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, SharePoint, AWS AD, AWS).
- Experience administering Windows Server, and related services.
- Cloud certifications in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle clouds.
- Certification examples: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional), Azure Solutions Architect (Expert), MCSE (Server), Certified AWS SysAdmin, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Dev/Associate), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified Security, Azure Developer Associate.
Technical Stack
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud
- DevOps & IaC: Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Artifactory, Guacamole
- Collaboration & Code: Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket
- Databases: SQL, NoSQL
- Identity & Directory: Active Directory, SAML
- Monitoring & Search: Elastic
- Applications: MS O365, SharePoint, Windows Server
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position.
Leidos is an equal opportunity employer.
