Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Koitecc Solutions; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to oversee reliability in a global multi-cloud environment supporting mission-critical services. You will drive automation, IaC, and observability while integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and cloud modernization.

The role requires extensive AWS/Azure/Kubernetes experience, strong DevSecOps practices, and the ability to lead complex troubleshooting and improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with extensive engineering experience.
• Secret clearance required to start and maintain employment.
• Hands-on AWS, Azure and Kubernetes architecture experience.
• Strong DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks.
• Proven troubleshooting and platform reliability skills.
• US citizenship required.
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT Level 2).

Responsibilities

• Own reliability engineering across a multi-cloud environment for availability and performance.
• Drive automation and IaC to reduce manual operations and enable remediation.
• Establish observability, performance management, dashboards, and capacity planning.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis with corrective actions.
• Integrate SRE with DevSecOps and cybersecurity in CI/CD and cloud modernization.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Leidos is pursuing the A1 Multi-Cloud Ecosystem (A1 MCE) Managed Services Support contract and currently has an opening for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer providing technical oversight for the reliability, availability, performance, and operational resilience within a multi-cloud environment. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for reliability engineering support across multi-cloud environment, ensuring availability, performance, scalability, and resilience of mission-critical services.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to reduce manual operations, standardize deployments, and enable automated remediation.
• Establish enterprise observability and performance management, including monitoring, logging, tracing, SLOs, dashboards, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Lead incident response and continuous improvement, including complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and implementation of corrective actions.
• Integrate SRE practices with DevSecOps and cybersecurity, embedding reliability, security, automated testing, and operational readiness into CI/CD pipelines and cloud modernization activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors and at least 12 years or more of experience; Masters at least 10 years or more of experience.
• Secret clearance required to start; Ability to obtain Secret clearance required to maintain employment
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes architecture
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks and container security best practices
• Strong troubleshooting, performance optimization and platform reliability engineering skills
• US citizenship required
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT Level 2)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture

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Original Posting

September 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 $116,350.00 - $210,325.00

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.

About 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 $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. 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.

• competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave and Retirement

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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.

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