[Hiring] AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer @Leidos

Role Description

Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract, and currently has an opening for Cloud Engineers across AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.

Location: This position will be remote. Preferred candidates will be located near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA) or work in Huntsville, AL.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop scalable cloud-native solutions, ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security from design, test, integration, production, sustainment, and maintenance.
• Perform cloud operations and engineering tasks to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for AWS cloud environment.
• Perform AWS cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance activities to maintain optimum cloud.
• Adopt and utilize Dev Sec Ops practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
• Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments through development and sustainment activities.
• Design, implement and sustain secure cloud architectures and networks implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
• Maintain compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements.
• Architect, implement and maintain cloud networking security controls including STIG requirements.
• Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
• Support development of migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions.
• Utilize 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.
• Support preparation of detailed technical documentation of development and operational processes.
• Work in cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.

Qualifications

• Bachelors and 4+ years or more of experience; Masters and 2+ years or more of experience.
• Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Secret clearance required.
• US citizenship required.
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2).
• Practiced verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to 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.

Requirements

• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture. Experience a plus.
• Capable of working in high powered teams and maintaining positive interpersonal relationships while delivering products and services to the customer.
• Understanding 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 to conduct DEV/SEC/OPS pipeline development activities.
• 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, Azure Solutions Architect.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Flexible work environment.

Company Description

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.