Cloud Engineering Manager

Leidos•Alexandria, VA

1d•$131,300 - $237,350•Onsite

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 manager leads a high-performing team delivering secure, reliable, modern IT services across AWS and Azure environments in support of Coast Guard missions. The role partners with government leadership and cross-functional technical teams to advance operational excellence, cybersecurity, cloud modernization, and mission outcomes. The position is accountable for day-to-day contract IT operations and for delivering services and solutions effectively, efficiently, and in compliance with government regulations and service-level agreements. It bridges program management, technical execution, and customer liaison responsibilities, including service delivery and performance management, stakeholder engagement, incident management, continuous improvement, modernization, and people management.

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, with 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 high-quality 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 clearance 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 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 direct people leadership, coaching, performance management, staffing, and technical direction for a multidisciplinary engineering team, 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, 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 while minimizing mission disruption.
Participate in architecture and design reviews, challenge assumptions, resolve complex technical issues, and guide teams toward scalable, resilient, cost-conscious solutions.
Oversee engineering and implementation of 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.
Lead cross-functional planning with Cloud Operations, Cybersecurity, PMO, application owners, and government stakeholders, ensuring designs are supportable and transition cleanly into sustainment.
Manage engineering delivery plans, integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, capacity, estimates, risks, and mitigations; track progress and ensure technical deliverables meet quality, cost, and schedule commitments.
Advise Coast Guard and program leadership, clearly communicating architecture options, tradeoffs, decisions, technical risks, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Coordinate with AWS Professional Services and other technical partners to align partner work with government priorities and internal engineering plans, provide knowledge transfer, and deliver measurable outcomes.
Develop technical talent and succession depth through mentoring, design reviews, skills development, and recruiting; establish clear ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Create and review architecture diagrams, engineering designs, migration runbooks, implementation plans, technical documentation, and decision records; present recommendations at customer technical review and governance forums.