Mission-Critical Azure Government Cloud Security Engineer (Hybrid)

Leidos; United States; Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave

Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an Azure Cloud Security Engineer to design, secure, automate, and sustain Azure Government cloud services supporting the U.S. Army CSSP.

This role strengthens cloud security, reliability, and onboarding DoD subscribers, collaborating with cloud engineers and mission partners. You will develop infrastructure as code using Python, Azure Bicep, ARM templates, and scripting; enable secure operations, support ATO processes, and document architecture and runbooks for resilient

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years' relevant experience or Master's with 6+ years.
• Hands-on experience engineering, administering, or supporting Microsoft Azure cloud environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, DNS, TLS/SSL, firewalls, and private connectivity.
• Experience with production cloud operations, patching, incident resolution, and documentation.
• Ability to meet DoD 8140 qualifications and obtain CSSP and Computing Environment certifications.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, secure, and maintain Azure Government cloud infrastructure for CSSP operations.
• Integrate and troubleshoot cloud logging, monitoring, and security across Azure, GCP, and Oracle.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Python, Azure Bicep, ARM templates, and scripting.
• Support ATO and O&M activities, including patching, remediation, and configuration management.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, networking, OS, and security issues.
• Collaborate with subscribers and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions.

Skills

Azure Gov security

Cloud security engineering

Linux administration

Networking and TLS/SSL

Documentation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Azure Bicep

ARM templates

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Docker

Kubernetes

Git/Bitbucket

Jira/Confluence

ServiceNow/Salesforce

Azure certifications

RHCSA/CompTIA Linux+

Job description

Leidos is seeking an Azure Cloud Security Engineer to design, secure, automate, and sustain Azure Government cloud services supporting the U.S. Army CSSP.

This role strengthens cloud security, reliability, and onboarding DoD subscribers, collaborating with cloud engineers and mission partners. You will develop infrastructure as code using Python, Azure Bicep, ARM templates, and scripting; enable secure operations, support ATO processes, and document architecture and runbooks for resilient