Cloud Engineer Lead

Leidos•San Antonio, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a Cloud Engineer Lead to work onsite in its San Antonio, Texas office near Lackland Air Force Base, supporting the Integrated Defensive Cyber System mission. The role leads the engineering team responsible for operating and maintaining multiple cloud environments and developing cloud environments that support multiple capabilities. The position leads cloud solution design and integration across compute, storage, and networking, ensuring designs meet target-environment and allocated requirements. It works with customers and stakeholders to understand needs, develop cloud patterns, present options, and guide decisions. The lead also manages cloud resources, including budgets and procurement, assigns work and guides team performance, and supports system policy development and execution. The position requires applying advanced technical knowledge to achieve project and program objectives and deliverables.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 12 or more years in software development, systems engineering, or a related field; alternatively, a master’s degree with 10 or more years. Additional related experience, training, and/or certifications may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
At least 7 years of technical application architecture experience, including architecting, designing, and programming applications for commercial cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
Experience with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud hosting architecture and design patterns addressing scalability, capacity, availability, performance, storage, cost, and application or platform requirements.
Experience with public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions.
Experience designing, developing, and deploying application software.
Experience migrating applications to the cloud at scale.
Knowledge of Agile processes and techniques and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
Experience with development practices including infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment.
Expert knowledge of, and ability to apply, advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cloud IdAM solutions.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
Security+ certification.

Responsibilities

Manage and lead the cloud engineering team to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of multiple cloud environments.
Manage cloud resources, including budgeting and cloud space procurement.
Assign tasks, manage workloads, and provide performance execution leadership and guidance.
Architect, develop, and re-engineer applications to use cloud capabilities such as elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation, and high availability.
Lead the design of cloud solutions and integration of tools and services for compute, storage, and networking.
Ensure designs are compatible with target cloud environments and allocated requirements.
Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements, translate them into effective cloud patterns, present solution options, and drive decisions.
Build and maintain relationships with Leidos partners, key vendors, and colleagues to identify and leverage ideas, solutions, and models that meet customer needs.
Address user requirements, procedures, and problems by automating and improving existing systems; review computer-system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, requirements allocation, and interface-definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Summarize and communicate technical results.
Support development, documentation, and execution of system policies.
Understand applicable performance standards and ensure Service Level Agreements are met or exceeded.
Work to achieve key project and program objectives and deliverables, and influence project or team leaders regarding solution design, processes, and approaches.