Cloud Engineering Manager
About The Position
Leidos is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Manager to lead cloud operations and service delivery initiatives supporting the United States Coast Guard’s Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Service Center (C5ISC) in Alexandria, Virginia. The role leads a multidisciplinary team delivering secure, reliable, and modern IT services across AWS and Azure environments that support Coast Guard missions. It partners with government leadership and technical teams to strengthen cybersecurity, modernize cloud services, improve operational performance, and support mission outcomes. The manager is accountable for day-to-day operations and for delivering contract IT services in compliance with government regulations and service-level agreements. The position bridges program management, technical execution, and customer engagement, with responsibility for service delivery, performance management, incident management, continuous improvement, modernization, and people leadership. The role also owns engineering strategy, architecture quality, technical standards, migration execution, delivery planning, and the transition of engineering solutions into sustainment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience, subject to program requirements.
- At least 8 years of progressively responsible cloud/infrastructure engineering or architecture experience, including at least 3 years supporting federal government contracts or programs.
- At least 4 years of direct technical people management or engineering team leadership, with responsibility for a sizable, multidisciplinary engineering organization.
- Strong hands-on background designing, integrating, and troubleshooting enterprise AWS and/or Azure cloud solutions, and working knowledge of the other platform.
- Experience planning and executing complex enterprise infrastructure or application migrations, including discovery, architecture, dependencies, cutover, and risk management.
- Ability to evaluate and present architectural alternatives and produce technical solutions, diagrams, implementation plans, and engineering documentation.
- Experience managing project schedules, resource plans, technical backlogs, delivery risks, and cross-team dependencies using Agile and disciplined project management practices.
- Working knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, infrastructure automation/IaC, DevSecOps, security engineering, and operational handoff.
- Familiarity with federal cybersecurity and authorization frameworks, including FISMA, NIST RMF, FedRAMP, and ATO processes.
- Excellent written, verbal, customer-facing, and executive briefing skills, including the ability to lead technical discussions and advise government stakeholders.
- Current and active Public Trust, consistent with existing USCG Cloud Modernization position requirements, and ability to maintain required access.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting DHS, U.S. Coast Guard, DoD, or other large federal civilian IT modernization programs.
- Experience managing engineering teams of 10 or more personnel and coordinating multiple technical workstreams, vendors, and subcontractor partners.
- Advanced AWS or Azure architecture certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, or comparable project/delivery management credential.
- Security+ or equivalent, CISSP, CISM, or relevant federal cybersecurity experience.
- Experience with AWS landing zones, Azure architecture, ICAM, AVD, network modernization, Zero Trust, and cloud security engineering.
- Experience leading architectural governance, cloud cost/performance optimization, and technical modernization roadmaps.
Responsibilities
- Provide people leadership, coaching, performance management, staffing, and technical direction for multidisciplinary cloud engineering teams, leading through technical leads and product managers as the organization grows.
- Own engineering strategy, architecture quality, technical standards, and execution across AWS and Microsoft Azure environments, including landing zones, cloud infrastructure, networking, ICAM, Windows/Azure Virtual Desktop, and platform modernization.
- Lead end-to-end cloud migrations, including discovery, dependency analysis, target-state architecture, migration-wave planning, implementation, validation, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.
- Participate directly in architecture and design reviews, challenge assumptions, resolve complex technical issues, and guide teams toward scalable, resilient, and cost-conscious solutions.
- Oversee infrastructure as code, automation, cloud-native services, configuration baselines, observability, disaster recovery, and standardized deployment patterns using DevSecOps and Agile practices.
- Partner with cybersecurity and authorization teams to engineer compliant solutions and produce technical evidence supporting NIST RMF, FISMA, FedRAMP, DoD Impact Level requirements, Zero Trust, and ATO activities.
- Coordinate planning with Cloud Operations, Cybersecurity, PMO, application owners, and government stakeholders, ensuring engineering designs are supportable and transition effectively into sustainment.
- Manage engineering delivery plans, integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, capacity, estimates, risks, and mitigation actions; track progress and ensure deliverables meet quality, cost, and schedule commitments.
- Advise Coast Guard and program leadership on architecture options, tradeoffs, decisions, technical risks, and recommended solutions, communicating to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Coordinate with AWS Professional Services and other technical partners, integrating partner work with government priorities and internal plans and ensuring knowledge transfer and measurable outcomes.
- Develop technical talent and succession depth through mentoring, design reviews, skills development, recruiting, and clear ownership; establish accountability and continuous improvement.
- Create and review architecture diagrams, engineering designs, migration runbooks, implementation plans, technical documentation, and decision records; present recommendations to customer technical review and governance forums.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
