Azure Cloud Engineer Ops

Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract, and currently has an opening for Cloud Engineers across AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to modernize a leading, global‑scale multi‑cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.

Hybrid remote. Candidates will be required to work onsite as needed. Preferred candidates will be located near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA) or work in Huntsville, AL.

• Provide cloud operations and engineering tasks to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for Azure cloud environment
• Perform Azure cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance activities to maintain optimum cloud performance, security, and cloud user experience
• Develop cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with organization objectives and technical requirements
• Continuously evaluate emerging cloud technologies to maximize automation and perform assessments of the potential impact on organizational and program goals
• Drive adoption of Dev Ops practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks
• Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments
• Support design, implementation, and sustainment of secure cloud architectures implementing zero‑trust principles and defense‑in‑depth strategies
• Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI‑DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements
• Architect, implement and maintain cloud networking security controls including STIG requirements
• Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks
• Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption
• Assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies including containerization and microservices
• Support development of migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions
• Manage and optimize cloud Azure environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems
• Implement and maintain CI/CD workflows and infrastructure‑as‑code development using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support Dev Sec Ops  practices
• Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency
• Support the design and development of Shared Services
• Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems
• Establish and maintain SQL and No
  
  SQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability
• Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management