Cloud Engineer

Leidos Inc; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 87,100 - 157,450; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Paid Leave

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Leidos Inc is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer in St. Louis, Missouri. This role involves working on cloud development and deployment, requiring strong knowledge of AWS technologies and system architectures.

The successful candidate will analyze cloud configurations and provide architectural recommendations, ensuring compliance with security measures. A BS degree with at least 5+ years of experience is needed.

Competitive salary range from $87,100 to $157,450 and various employment benefits.

Qualifications

• Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance.
• DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3) required.
• Requires 5+ years of experience in distributed solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates on AWS system architectures.
• Reviews system requirements based on cyber security.
• Provides architectural analysis for cloud configurations.

Skills

Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies

Experience in Grafana

Familiar with System Engineering documentation

Proactive self-starter

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Education

BS degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Gitlab

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

Description

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.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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% uptime.
• 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 system changes; creates, runs and validates end‑to‑end testing.

Basic Qualifications

• Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI.
• DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3).
• Requires 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, RocketChat).
• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies.
• Experience in Grafana.
• Subject Matter Expertise understanding across AWS cloud technologies including EC2, PaaS (OpenShift), Lambdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc.
• Understanding of code baseline management.
• Utilization of the following: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab, CloudFormation, 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Pay Range: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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.