Senior Cloud Engineer

Leidos•Saint Louis, MO

13h

About The Position

The Leidos Air and FS2 Team team has an opening for an senior AWS Cloud Engineer to work on cloud architecture, integration, and deployment of AWS service offerings across security and technical enclaves. The team is involved in the deployment and maintenance of multiple operational cloud deployed software solutions. A successful candidate will have experience across complex AWS Environments and be able to provide analysis and recommendations for architectural and configuration approaches. In addition, they will be expected to provide leadership, senior expertise, guidance, documentation and implementation support as AWS technologies are rolled out, leveraging industry best practices.

Requirements

Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI
DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3)
Requires BS degree and & 15+ years’ experience consulting, designing, and implementing distributed solutions and 5+ years’ experience with cloud-based solutions (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) including virtualization environment, network and operating system experience OR 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree
Direct experience in creation and baseline of System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)
Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, RocketChat)
Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies and integration
Experience in Grafana
Subject Matter Expertise understanding across AWS cloud technologies including: EC2, PaaS (OpenShift), Lamdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc.
Understanding of code baseline management
Utilization of the following: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, CloudFormation, Zabbix, HPFortify, ACAS, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Kanban, Terraform
Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices
Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrates ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their logical conclusion and ensure everything has been correctly satisfied to standard. Great attention to detail.
Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of SFA organization; Aeronautical data and mission
Experience with NGA cloud-based and Enterprise architecture
Direct experience with AWS Service integration approaches and deployment patterns (ex: AWS FSx, AWS SSM, AWS Transit Gateway)
Experience in team management, creation and maintain product and capability roadmaps
AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certifications
Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies
Native cloud templating services like AWS Cloud Formation
Experience with Aeronautical datasets
Experience with CI/CD Pipelines and projects
Experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) process of evaluating solution options

Responsibilities

Provides leadership in the design and implementation of AWS system architectures to include operational status and security of government systems (ATO).
Reviews and provides input to system requirements based on cyber security posture.
Compiles industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.
Direct project planning and communication with key Program and Customer technical stakeholders on technology implementation
Provides architectural analysis of cloud systems, configurations, and enterprise connections.
Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural compliance.
Creates systemic and repeatable systems architecture and implementation documentation for use across mission areas/teams.
Provides broad-based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and applies the experience to specific AWS cloud initiatives relating to architectural design and development.
Resolves architecture implementation issues during integration and test.
Provides support directly or through team management, including triaging system outages and ticket support resolution
Advises and assists teams to deploy and configure collection services and tools with 99.9% up-time
Works with team members to move data to the appropriate data stores and monitors dashboard metrics including costs, computational utilization and other future business needs
Validates and manages government systems changes; create, run and validate end-to-end testing