Operations & Maintenance Cloud Engineer

July 23, 2026 For U.S. Positions:
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range $87,100.00 - $ The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit

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You will serve as the initial point of contact for IT-related field and application production problems. In this capacity, you will provide phone and online support to users, performing technical triage, troubleshooting, resolving issues, and following escalation protocols as necessary. Additional duties will include:
Work in tandem with our application teams to identify, triage, troubleshoot, and remediate application production issues. Working knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Watch, X-Ray, Splunk) to ensure system and application availability and performance. Define and document the best practices and strategies regarding application maintenance and recovery protocols. Practical knowledge of Dev Sec Ops  principles, methodologies, and best practices.

Solid Understanding of networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, VPNs, and firewalls. Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to others to build their cloud competencies and share knowledge. Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards, and ensuring SLAs are attainable. Provide oversight and monitoring of applications in the AWS environment following the government security guidelines. At the direction of the O&M team leader, develop and implement technical efforts to maintain AWS applications, including…