Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Leidos; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to provide technical oversight for reliability, availability, performance, and resilience across a multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission for USAF systems.

The role emphasizes driving automation, IaC, enterprise observability, and incident response, with a strong focus on DevSecOps integration and secure CI/CD pipelines. US citizenship and security clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience, or Master's with 10+ years of experience.
• Secret clearance required to start and 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).

Responsibilities

• Provide reliability engineering support across a multi-cloud environment to ensure availability, performance, scalability, and resilience of mission-critical services.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to reduce manual operations and standardize deployments.
• Establish enterprise observability and performance management including monitoring, logging, tracing, SLOs, dashboards, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Lead incident response and continuous improvement with root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Integrate SRE practices with DevSecOps and cybersecurity within CI/CD pipelines and cloud modernization activities.

Skills

SRE

Troubleshooting

DevSecOps

Automation

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

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.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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.