DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Cloud Engineer, where your innovative solutions will enhance the performance and cost-effectiveness of applications supporting Medicare and Medicaid. This remote role involves collaborating with diverse technical teams to build CI/CD pipelines and optimize cloud infrastructure. You'll be a key player in ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions while driving modernization and innovation efforts. If you're passionate about leveraging technology to improve healthcare delivery, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in Cloud Engineering with a focus on application lifecycle automation.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain products for application development lifecycle automation.
• Develop strong relationships with CMS Hybrid Cloud Product Teams.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Problem Solving

Technical Knowledge

Continuous Improvement

Tools

Slack

Microsoft Teams

Zoom

CI/CD Pipelines

Kubernetes

EC2

Cloud Formation

Job description

Description

Leidos is hiring an energetic, motivated, innovative individual to be a part of our team supporting Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, MD. The Cloud Engineer works closely with the Program team to manage, maintain, modernize and optimize application’s performance, durability, and cost to best support CMS and the general public. You will deliver solutions that ultimately ensure that the functions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace are carried out for the US citizen and contribute to efforts to reduce healthcare costs.

As a Cloud Engineer you will be required to develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of industry best practices. You will influence development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results while also leading work of other technical staff. You will resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation. You will interact daily with various technical resources across different vendors which are fulfilling technical requirements for the customer.

Your goal will be to work with all stakeholders to help Leidos ensure delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions with minimal business impact. Lastly and most importantly, you will represent our program when meeting with the Application Development Organizations (ADO) and identify opportunities to provide support as well as modernization and innovation opportunities for their application.

The current work environment is remote leveraging various tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain products focused on application development lifecycle automation
• Work with the cloud, security, testing, and application teams to build orchestration pipelines
• Build, support, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that conduct multiple deployments a day
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by establishing and participating in feedback loops
• Meet with applications on a regular cadence to provide support and identify opportunities for optimization
• Serve as a main point of contact for all technical needs and become the subject matter expert of the applications the team manages.
• Become a subject matter expert with CMS Hybrid Cloud and CMS Enterprise Shared Service offerings
• Develop strong relationships and partnerships with the other CMS Hybrid Cloud Product Teams
• Continuously refresh infrastructure components such as EC2 instances, Cloud Formation Stacks, Kubernetes clusters, containers, etc.
• Promote strong quality control practices for all managed services as well as maintain robust documentation
• Work independently to resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation

Basic Qualifications:

• Works independently under “minimal supervision.