Senior Chief IaaS Engineer

Description

Join the Leidos Homeland Sector in a senior technical leadership role supporting a high-impact international program. As the Senior Chief Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Engineer, you will lead the design, development, integration, and implementation of IaaS capabilities enabling the fully automated deployment of a VMware-based private cloud Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) within a NATO-secured environment.

You will serve as the program’s technical authority for IaaS engineering, shaping infrastructure architecture, virtualization, automation, and platform modernization. Your work will deliver secure, scalable, resilient infrastructure platforms supporting Enterprise Core Services (ECS), Client Provisioning Services (CPS), Dev Ops, and Service Management Control (SMC), while ensuring alignment with program objectives, engineering standards, and NATO security requirements.

In this highly visible role, you will lead and coordinate the Platform, Network, Firewall, and Backup and Recovery engineering disciplines to deliver a fully integrated private cloud capability. You will maintain technical oversight of both automation and physical implementation activities, ensuring deployed solutions align with the approved architecture and customer requirements. You will also provide technical leadership for Agile engineering delivery through backlog management, sprint planning, roadmap development, dependency resolution, and cross-team coordination.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to work directly with international customers and technical partners, with approximately 25% travel to The Hague, Netherlands, and other NATO locations as needed to support solution integration, implementation, testing, and customer acceptance. It is an ideal opportunity for a senior engineering leader interested in advancing mission-critical cloud capabilities while gaining valuable international program experience.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, integration, and implementation of enterprise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions supporting private cloud SDDC modernization initiatives.

• Serve as the technical authority for VMware-based private cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalable, resilient, secure, and supportable platform designs.

• Provide technical leadership, engineering direction, and integration oversight for the Platform, Network, Firewall, and Backup & Recovery engineering teams, ensuring all infrastructure components are delivered as a cohesive enterprise IaaS capability.

• Develop enterprise infrastructure architectures supporting Enterprise Core Services (ECS), Client Provisioning Services (CPS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Dev Ops, and Service Management Control (SMC).

• Design and implement enterprise virtualization solutions using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), ESXi, vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, AVI and associated platform technologies.

• Lead heavily Automation driven implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Power Shell, Python, or equivalent technologies.

• Collaborate with Platform, Network, Firewall, Backup & Recovery, cybersecurity, and Dev Ops engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of enterprise infrastructure capabilities.

• Lead cross-functional engineering reviews to ensure infrastructure automation, platform configuration, network integration, security controls, and backup solutions operate as a unified enterprise capability throughout development and implementation.

• Provide technical leadership for Agile engineering execution by managing the infrastructure engineering backlog, refining user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and prioritizing work in alignment with programme objectives.

• Develop and maintain the IaaS engineering roadmap, ensuring technical dependencies, milestones, implementation priorities, and architectural decisions are accurately reflected within Jira.

• Identify, manage, and resolve cross-functional engineering blockers and dependencies impacting Platform, Network, Firewall, Backup & Recovery, and Dev Ops engineering activities.

• Partner with Scrum Masters and Product Owners to support backlog refinement, sprint planning, technical estimation, sprint reviews, release planning, and roadmap execution.

• Monitor engineering execution through Jira dashboards, Agile metrics, and dependency tracking to ensure predictable delivery of infrastructure capabilities and timely resolution of technical risks.

• Integrate Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) infrastructure technologies into secure enterprise environments while ensuring compliance with NATO security policies, programme requirements, and engineering standards.

• Develop and maintain enterprise infrastructure architectures, engineering designs, implementation strategies, technical standards, engineering documentation, and reference architectures.

• Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning, architecture reviews, engineering…