Cloud Engineer

The Leidos Air Team has an opening for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to work on a cloud development and deployment team. The team is involved in the deployment and maintenance of multiple operational cloud‑deployed software solutions. A successful candidate will have experience across all AWS environments and be able to provide analysis and recommendations for architectural and configuration updates.

• Collaborates with teams 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.
• Provides architectural analysis of cloud configurations and connections.
• Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural compliance.
• 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; creates, runs and validates end‑to‑end testing.

• Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI.
• DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3).
• Requires a BS degree and 5+ years’ experience consulting, designing and implementing distributed solutions and 3+ 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.
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.).
• Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Rocket Chat).
• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies.
• Experience with Grafana.
• Subject Matter Expertise in AWS cloud technologies including: EC2, PaaS (Open Shift), Lamdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc.
• Understanding of code baseline management.
• Utilization of the following:
  Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, Cloud Formation, 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.

• Understanding of SFA organization;
  Aeronautical data and mission.
• Experience with NGA cloud‑based architecture.
• 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.

$87,100.00 - $

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.