Remote Cloud Engineering Lead – Azure & DoD Secured

Leidos Inc; United States; Remote; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Lead to join the Defense Enclave Services team. You will design, deploy, and manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions in Azure, with a focus on cloud modernization for DoD environments.

You will mentor a team of cloud engineers, drive secure architectures, enforce IAM and ICAM practices, and guide migration of on‑premise workloads to the cloud for thousands of users. Remote work is supported with onsite requirements at Ft. Meade as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience managing engineering teams and cross-team collaboration.
• Expertise designing, deploying, and operating Azure/AWS/GCP-based solutions.
• Experience with IDAM, AzureAD, CyberArk, Okta or similar ICAM.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, and automation like Ansible or Azure Functions.
• Knowledge of federal security requirements: NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA.
• Ability to work in a distributed team with strong communication.
• Current IAT Level II Certification such as Security+ or CISSP.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and mentoring to a cloud engineering team.
• Design and deploy infrastructure as code for Azure/IaaS/PaaS/SaaS.
• Contribute to enterprise cloud and mission architecture design.
• Evaluate architectures for cloud alignment and modernization.
• Identify improvements to reduce costs and improve UX.
• Enforce security best practices and policies.
• Engage with team to drive career growth and performance reviews.
• Scale cloud solutions and migrate data center capabilities to cloud for ~400k users.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud architecture

Azure/AWS/GCP

IDAM / ICAM

IaC / CI/CD

Security compliance (NIST/FedRAMP/FIS

Security+ / CISSP

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Ansible

Azure Functions

Job description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Lead to join the Defense Enclave Services team. You will design, deploy, and manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions in Azure, with a focus on cloud modernization for DoD environments.

You will mentor a team of cloud engineers, drive secure architectures, enforce IAM and ICAM practices, and guide migration of on‑premise workloads to the cloud for thousands of users. Remote work is supported with onsite requirements at Ft. Meade as needed.