Chief Engineer - NASA AEGIS

Leidos; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The Leidos Digital Sector seeks a Chief Engineer to lead engineering strategy and execution across technologies and products within the AEGIS program. Based at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL (or Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL), the role shapes modernization initiatives, guides major upgrades, and drives enterprise IT toward NASA's evolving mission needs.

You will build and mentor a large engineering team, translate agency objectives into actionable plans, and

Qualifications

• Seasoned leader with broad enterprise IT domain experience.
• Experience delivering large-scale modernization and service upgrades.
• Ability to translate agency objectives into actionable priorities.
• Proven people leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering across all AEGIS technologies including data centers, cloud, networking, VoIP, cybersecurity, and collaboration services.
• Build relationships with senior NASA and Leidos leadership to align with agency priorities.
• Continuously assess enterprise baselines and recommend modernization improvements.
• Translate NASA OCIO and Office of Engineering objectives into actionable priorities, plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure daily engineering work remains aligned with long-term organizational goals.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team supporting networking, firewalls, VoIP, data centers, and cloud services across NASA.
• Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and technical excellence.
• Mentor engineers at all levels on career growth, skills, and technical decision making.
• Communicate clear expectations, provide timely feedback, and model strong leadership behaviors.
• Promote collaboration across engineering, architecture, security, operations, and program leadership.
• Cultivate accountability, transparency, and a strong customer service mindset.
• Ensure actions have clear owners, due dates, and follow through, reducing tactical burden on the government Engineering Office.
• Maintain visibility across engineering projects, initiatives, studies, modernization efforts, and operational work.
• Provide leadership with clear views of status, schedules, dependencies, risks, constraints, and required decisions.
• Operate network technology labs for asset management, testing, standards evaluation, requirements analysis, and technology investigation.
• Recommend standards for implementing new services across NASA.
• Ensure engineering coordination across networks, telecommunications, cable plant, data centers, cloud, cybersecurity, and voice/video.
• Identify dependencies and prevent cross-domain engineering issues.

Job description

The Digital Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Chief Engineer to lead engineering strategy and execution across all technologies and products included within the Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions (AEGIS) program scope.

The position is located at NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center (MSFC in Huntsville, AL) or Kennedy Space Center (KSC in Cape Canaveral, FL), highly preferred.

The AEGIS program is NASA's largest IT infrastructure services contract, supporting enterprise IT and mission systems across data centers, cloud platforms, networks, collaboration tools, voice over IP, and cybersecurity. As part of the AEGIS leadership team, you will directly influence how NASA evolves to support missions on Earth, in space, and beyond.

POSITION SUMMARY

Leidos is seeking an experienced, innovative, and highly technical individual to provide technical leadership to both NASA and Leidos stakeholders, shape long-term modernization initiatives, guide major service upgrades, and ensure enterprise services continually evolve to meet NASA's mission needs. The ideal candidate is a trusted technical advisor, a strategic thinker, an energetic people leader, and a recognized subject matter expert with broad experience across enterprise IT domains. The Chief Engineer will continuously assess the operational and functional baseline of our managed systems and services. The role is responsible for leading the engineering team while contributing to the program governance structure to ensure adoption of new technologies and/or configurations align with the overall direction of the Agency. The Chief Engineer will be directly responsible for the development, management, delivery, and day‑to‑day maintenance of the technology roadmap to assist in improved forward schedule planning for enterprise services, which includes planning for the introduction of tools and services to support new and emerging technologies and requirements.

As Chief Engineer for AEGIS, you'll help shape the future of NASA's enterprise IT landscape. You'll influence major modernization initiatives, collaborate with top technical leaders, and lead a large team to ensure NASA's infrastructure is prepared to support evolving mission needs. This role offers the opportunity to drive significant impact across one of the most innovative and mission‑driven IT environments in the world.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic & Technical Leadership

• Lead engineering across all AEGIS technologies including data centers, cloud, networking, VoIP, cybersecurity, and collaboration services.
• Build strong relationships with senior NASA and Leidos leadership to ensure alignment with agency priorities.
• Continuously assess enterprise system baselines and recommend improvements to support modernization.
• Translate NASA OCIO and Office of Engineering objectives into actionable engineering priorities, plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure daily engineering work remains aligned with long term organizational goals.

People Leadership

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team supporting networking, firewalls, VoIP, data centers, and cloud services across NASA.
• Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and technical excellence.
• Mentor engineers at all levels on career growth, skills, and technical decision making.
• Communicate clear expectations, provide timely feedback, and model strong leadership behaviors.
• Promote collaboration across engineering, architecture, security, operations, and program leadership.
• Cultivate accountability, transparency, and a strong customer service mindset.
• Ensure actions have clear owners, due dates, and follow through, reducing tactical burden on the government Engineering Office.

Planning & Architecture

• Perform systems analysis and planning to support NASA's infrastructure strategy.
• Develop feasibility studies, trend analyses, business cases, benchmarks, and strategic roadmaps.
• Understand contract technical requirements and guide the team toward solutions meeting user needs and contract obligations.
• Review emerging technologies and assess impacts on NASA architectures, standards, and long term service evolution.

Engineering & Integration

• Lead design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and logistics activities.
• Maintain visibility across engineering projects, initiatives, studies, modernization efforts, and operational work.
• Provide leadership with clear views of status, schedules, dependencies, risks, constraints, and required decisions.
• Assess infrastructure impacts of new requirements and NASA network expansions.
• Operate network technology labs for asset management, testing, standards evaluation, requirements analysis, and technology investigation.
• Recommend standards for implementing new services across NASA.
• Ensure engineering coordination across networks, telecommunications, cable plant, data centers, cloud, cybersecurity, and voice/video.
• Identify dependencies and prevent cross-domain engineeri