Azure Cloud Engineering Lead for DoD & Zero-Trust

Leidos LLC; United States; Remote; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos LLC is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Lead for the Defense Enclave Services team. The role focuses on designing, deploying, and migrating IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Azure to support a large DoD modernization program.

The candidate will mentor engineers, enforce security best practices, and scale cloud solutions across multiple projects with a 400k user base. Remote work with occasional on-site at Ft. Meade is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience managing teams of engineers and fostering collaboration.
• Expertise designing, deploying, and operating Azure, AWS or GCP solutions.
• Experience with IDAM/ICAM such as AzureAD, CyberArk or Okta.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, and automation tools like Ansible or Azure Functions.
• Understanding of NIST, FedRAMP and FISMA security requirements.
• Ability to work in a distributed team with strong communication.
• Current IAT Level II certification (Security+ or CISSP).

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and mentoring to cloud engineers.
• Design and deploy as code architectures for IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Azure.
• Contribute to cloud and mission architecture designs.
• Evaluate architectures for modernization and security alignment.
• Identify improvements to reduce costs and improve user experience.
• Enforce security policies and guardrails.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Cloud leadership

Azure

AWS

GCP

IaC

CI/CD

ICAM

Security

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Ansible

Azure Functions

Job description

Leidos LLC is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Lead for the Defense Enclave Services team. The role focuses on designing, deploying, and migrating IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Azure to support a large DoD modernization program.

The candidate will mentor engineers, enforce security best practices, and scale cloud solutions across multiple projects with a 400k user base. Remote work with occasional on-site at Ft. Meade is available.