Cloud Engineer Lead

Leidos; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos seeks a Cloud Engineer Lead to join our San Antonio, TX office, driving the design, deployment, and optimization of multi-cloud environments to support the Integrated Defensive Cyber System mission.

The role leads a cloud engineering team, manages budgets and procurement, and guides architecture decisions for scalable, automated cloud solutions with strong SLAs. Onsite work near Lackland AFB.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 12+ years in software development, system engineering or related field or master’s with 10+ years.
• 7+ years technical application architecture experience including architecting, designing, and programming applications to operate in a commercial cloud environment (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI).
• Experience with IaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud hosting architecture/design patterns to meet scalability, capacity, availability, performance, storage, cost, and application requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage cloud engineering team to ensure efficient operation of multiple cloud environments.
• Oversee budgeting and procurement of cloud space and resources.
• Assign tasks, manage workloads, and provide performance leadership.
• Design cloud solutions and integrate tools/services for compute, storage, and networking.
• Ensure designs meet target cloud environments and requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into cloud patterns and options.
• Maintain relationships with partners and vendors to leverage best ideas and solutions.
• Automate and improve existing systems; review system capabilities, workflows, and schedules.
• Conduct cost estimation, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies.

Skills

Cloud engineering leadership

Cloud architecture

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI)

Cost budgeting

Team leadership

Application deployment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/CS/SE or related field

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Security+ Certification

Job description

Leidos is seeking a highly qualified candidate for the Cloud Engineer lead to work in our San Antonio, TX office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience assisting the Integrated Defensive Cyber System mission. The ideal candidate will have experience creating and developing cloud environments supporting multiple capabilities. This position is located near Lackland Air Force Base; all work is onsite.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead the cloud engineering team to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of multiple cloud environments.
• Manage cloud resources, including budgeting and cloud space procurement.
• Assign tasks, manage workloads, and provide performance execution leadership and guidance.
• Apply experience architecting, developing, and re-engineering applications to leverage benefits of cloud capabilities of elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation, and high availability
• Lead the design of cloud solutions and integration of tools and services for all areas of cloud computing including compute, storage, and networking
• Ensure designs are compatible with the target cloud environments and allocated requirements
• Collaborate with customer and other stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate into effective cloud patterns; present solution options and drive decisions on the way ahead to meet customer needs
• Establish and maintain relationships with Leidos partners, key vendors, and within Leidos to seek, qualify and leverage the best ideas, solutions, and models to meet customer needs
• Address user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate and improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, requirements allocation, and interfaced definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• Summarize and communicate technical results
• Support the development, documentation, and execution of system policies
• Understand all applicable performance standards and ensure that all Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met or exceeded
• Works to achieve key project/program objectives and deliverables.
• Works to influence project/team leaders regarding solution design, process and/or approaches
• Requires expert knowledge of and ability to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 12+ years in software development, system engineering or related field or master’s with 10+ years. Additional years of related experience, training, and/or certifications accepted in lieu of a degree 7+ years technical application architecture experience including architecting, designing, and programming applications to operate in a commercial cloud (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI) environment Experienced in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS) Cloud Hosting Architecture /Design patterns to meet scalability, capacity, availability, performance, storage, cost, and application/platform requirements Experience with Cloud technologies including public, private and hybrid cloud solutions Experience in design, development, and deployment of application software Experience migrating applications to the Cloud at scale Knowledge of Agile and processes and techniques and SDLC Experience with Develops practices including IaC, CI/CD pipeline, and automated deployment

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with IdAM solutions in the Cloud AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Security+ Certification

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Original Posting:

October 23, 2026 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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