Cloud Engineer Lead

Leidos•San Antonio, TX

3d•$131,300 - $237,350•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 a cloud engineering team responsible for operating and maintaining multiple cloud environments, managing cloud resources, and designing cloud solutions that meet customer and allocated requirements. The position applies advanced technical expertise to architect, develop, re-engineer, and migrate applications to cloud environments, and to integrate cloud computing tools and services across compute, storage, and networking. The lead works with customers, stakeholders, vendors, and Leidos partners to develop effective cloud patterns, evaluate solution options, and meet project objectives. The role also supports system policy development and execution, service-level agreement performance, and communication of technical results.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, or a related field and 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and 10 or more years of relevant experience; 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 a commercial cloud environment 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 identity and access management (IdAM) solutions in the cloud.
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 across 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 cloud patterns, present solution options, and drive decisions.
Establish and maintain relationships with Leidos partners, key vendors, and internal teams to identify and leverage solutions that meet customer needs.
Address user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate and improve existing systems; review system capabilities, workflows, 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 the development, documentation, and execution of system policies.
Understand applicable performance standards and ensure service-level agreements are met or exceeded.
Work toward key project and program objectives and deliverables, and influence project or team leaders regarding solution design, processes, and approaches.