Senior Amazon Connect System Administrator – DoD Healthcare

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is hiring for a Senior Amazon Connect System Administrator to support a DoD/DHA enterprise contact center. The role focuses on administering Amazon Connect, configuring IVR and routing, and ensuring platform reliability in a cloud-based environment integrated with Salesforce Health Cloud.

You will monitor performance, support workforce management, and provide Tier 2 troubleshooting while maintaining security and privacy requirements. A Public Trust clearance is expected for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related technical discipline with relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience administering Amazon Connect or similar enterprise contact center platform.
• Experience configuring contact center users, queues, routing profiles, hours and IVR menus.
• Familiarity with enterprise contact center operations, including SLA metrics and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Amazon Connect environments, including users and routing.
• Perform MACs for agents, queues, and routing updates.
• Configure inbound numbers, multi-level IVR, prompts, and schedules.
• Monitor call volumes, queues, and service levels to ensure performance.
• Support workforce management, forecasting, and adherence monitoring.
• Configure call recording, transcription, and contact analytics.
• Integrate Amazon Connect with Salesforce Health Cloud and related workflows.
• Provide Tier 2 support and root-cause analysis for issues.

Skills

Amazon Connect

IVR configuration

Troubleshooting

AWS familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/IS or related

Tools

Salesforce Health Cloud

AWS CloudWatch

IAM

Job description

Leidos is hiring for Global Nurse Advice Line – Next Generation (GNAL-NG), a Defense Health Agency (DHA) service providing reliable, timely, professional, and courteous registered nurse (RN) triage, care advice, care coordination, and customer service, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to eligible MHS beneficiaries. On GNAL-NG we leverage technology to provide the patient with a superior experience while providing the patient with quick access to a live telehealth RN or care coordinator. Our approach helps provide the appropriate level and place of care, helping to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce total cost of care.

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Amazon Connect System Administrator to support the administration, configuration, operation, and sustainment of an enterprise cloud-based contact center platform supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and Defense Health Agency (DHA). The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining daily Amazon Connect operations, including inbound call routing, multi-level interactive voice response (IVR), call queues, agent configurations, workforce management, call recording, transcription, and contact center analytics. The Amazon Connect environment will integrate with Salesforce Health Cloud to support healthcare contact center operations, including patient engagement, nurse advice services, care coordination, appointment scheduling, and referral management. This position will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for maintaining platform availability, managing configuration changes, resolving complex technical incidents, and supporting compliance with applicable government security and privacy requirements. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Security Clearance.

Primary Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Amazon Connect environments, including users, security profiles, routing profiles, agent hierarchies, contact queues, and operational configurations.
• Perform routine and complex moves, adds, and changes (MACs), including agent provisioning, access management, queue assignments, and routing updates.
• Configure and maintain inbound telephone numbers, multi-level IVR menus, prompts, business hours, holiday schedules, call routing, transfers, and callbacks.
• Monitor contact center performance, including call volumes, queue wait times, service levels, abandoned calls, agent availability, and system health.
• Support workforce management capabilities, including forecasting and scheduling configurations, agent adherence monitoring, and operational reporting.
• Administer approved call recording, transcription, quality management, and contact analytics configurations.
• Support operational integrations between Amazon Connect and Salesforce Health Cloud, including screen pops, customer identification, contact activity logging, and associated workflows.
• Provide Tier 2 technical support, troubleshoot complex routing and configuration issues, perform root cause analysis, and escalation software or integration defects to the development team.
• Monitor AWS CloudWatch logs, contact records, operational metrics, and other diagnostic information to identify and resolve system issues.
• Support testing, validation, and deployment of configuration changes, platform updates, and application releases.
• Maintain system documentation, configuration inventories, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Ensure system administration activities comply with applicable DoD/DHA cybersecurity, privacy, access management, and change control requirements.
• Collaborate with Amazon Connect developers, Salesforce administrators, cloud engineers, cybersecurity personnel, and contact center operations teams to improve platform reliability and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior administrators and support personnel.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline and 4–8 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 2–6 years of relevant experience.
• Equivalent experience may be considered in accordance with Leidos policies.
• At least 1 year of hands‑on experience administering Amazon Connect or a comparable enterprise contact center platform.
• Experience configuring and maintaining contact center users, queues, routing profiles, operating hours, IVR menus, and call distribution settings.
• Understanding of enterprise contact center operations, including inbound call routing, agent management, contact handling, and service‑level performance metrics.
• Experience supporting call recording, workforce management, contact center reporting, or quality management capabilities.
• Experience troubleshooting contact center configuration, routing, connectivity, and agent‑related issues.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services and monitoring capabilities.
• Experience supporting enterprise production applications in a structured incident and change management environment.
• Ability to independently investigate and resolve complex operational and technical issues.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to meet applicable DoD/DHA personnel security and suitability requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.
• Experience administering Amazon Connect in regulated government or healthcare environments.
• Experience supporting Amazon Connect integrations with Salesforce Health Cloud or Service Cloud.
• Familiarity with Amazon Connect Contact Lens, workforce management, forecasting, scheduling, and agent performance capabilities.
• Experience administering Amazon Lex conversational interfaces, chatbots, or voicebots.
• Familiarity with AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Experience supporting call recording, transcription, and contact analytics capabilities.
• Experience supporting DoD, DHA, VA, or other federal healthcare programs.
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud (US) environments.
• Knowledge of HIPAA, FedRAMP, DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF), and applicable cybersecurity requirements.
• Experience with ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Familiarity with telecommunications concepts, SIP, PSTN connectivity, and enterprise contact center voice architecture.

Pay Range

Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00 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.

Original Posting: November 6, 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 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 here.

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Commitment and Diversity

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.

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 $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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