Chief Engineer

Description

Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a Chief Engineer for 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, leading architecture, engineering, Dev Sec Ops /SRE, cybersecurity, and operations teams in a product‑aligned organization to modernizing the Cloud One environment.

Location:

The Chief Engineer position is remote, with period travel to customer locations (including Hanscom AFB) required.

As the Cloud One Chief Engineer, you will lead cross‑functional teams development and implementation of scalable cloud‑native solutions, and ensure best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security. This role is essential to ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments. You’ll work closely across the architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams, under the guidance of program leadership, to drive continuous improvement and deliver value to the mission.

• Responsible for the overall integrity, quality, and completeness of technical work performed and associated deliverables.
• Implement and lead cross‑discipline integration among teams within the contract fostering a culture of innovation.
• Apply systems engineering principles throughout the systems lifecycle phases:
  Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement.
• Interact with the Government regarding Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
• Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
• Provide matrixed leadership over approximately 150 engineers, operators, architects, and cybersecurity professionals.
• Lead using software engineering and security principles to build and maintain scalable, highly reliable, and performant large‑scale systems.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated software delivery.
• Design and implement highly available, fault‑tolerant systems for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability and performance.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and Cloud Watch.
• Work with operations leadership to implement incident response and postmortem processes to drive continuous improvement, including troubleshooting production incidents, performing root cause analysis and resolution.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into application design and deployment.
• Lead capacity planning including forecasting resource needs to ensure systems can scale effectively.
• Ensure compliance with security best practices, including IAM, VPC design, and encryption standards.
• Implement Dev Sec Ops  pipelines for a variety of technical stacks on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Lead the implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Cloud Formation.
• Lead the deployment and management of applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Configure and optimize container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Maintain high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud‑based systems.
• Configure and maintain virtualized environments to ensure performance, scalability, and security.
• Support infrastructure modernization efforts by integrating virtualization solutions into hybrid cloud environments.
• Implement automated security tools for vulnerability scanning, static/dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and container security.
• Drive consistency for deployment and build processes.
• Establish proactive monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and…