Platform Engineering Team Lead — Cloud, CI/CD & DevSecOps

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

Job summary

Leidos seeks a Platform Engineering Team Lead to guide a team delivering enterprise software platforms for the USAF program. You will shape roadmaps, establish standards, and drive automation, reliability, and developer productivity on cloud-native platforms using AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and IaC.

On-site at Joint Base San Antonio, you will mentor engineers, partner with security and operations, implement CI/CD, GitOps, and observability, and ensure compliance with RMF and NIST guidelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in DevOps, Platform or Cloud engineering roles.
• 3+ years leading technical teams or initiatives.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated software delivery processes.
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker or other container orchestration technologies.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, automation, and observability best practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of platform engineers supporting enterprise software delivery platforms.
• Establish platform engineering roadmaps, standards, and best practices.
• Coordinate platform initiatives across development, operations, security, and architecture teams.
• Drive automation, reliability, scalability, and developer productivity improvements.
• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native platforms using AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and container technologies.
• Develop reusable platform services and self-service capabilities for application teams.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Ensure platform scalability, resiliency and operational efficiency.
• Lead implementation and governance of enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish automated build, test, security scanning, compliance validation and deployment processes.
• Implement GitOps practices and deployment automation strategies.
• Integrate security controls and policy enforcement into delivery pipelines.
• Implement observability solutions including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Establish automated recovery, rollback, and incident response capabilities.
• Monitor platform health, availability, and performance metrics.
• Support production operations and reliability engineering initiatives.
• Ensure platform solutions comply with organizational security and regulatory requirements.
• Support RMF, audit, and compliance initiatives through automated evidence collection and reporting.
• Enforce platform governance, access controls and operational guardrails.
• Maintain documentation, standards and operational procedures.

Skills

DevOps experience

Platform engineering

Cloud engineering

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Leadership

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

ArgoCD

Job description

Leidos seeks a Platform Engineering Team Lead to guide a team delivering enterprise software platforms for the USAF program. You will shape roadmaps, establish standards, and drive automation, reliability, and developer productivity on cloud-native platforms using AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and IaC.

On-site at Joint Base San Antonio, you will mentor engineers, partner with security and operations, implement CI/CD, GitOps, and observability, and ensure compliance with RMF and NIST guidelines.