Senior Cloud Engineer: Cloud-Native Architect & DevOps

Leidos LLC; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness programs

Paid Leave

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Leidos is leading the modernization of defense and intelligence technology from its Digital Modernization sector in the United States. We seek a Cloud Innovation Solution Engineer to architect cloud infrastructure for the Coast Guard in Alexandria, VA, guiding transformation with secure, scalable cloud native solutions and DevOps practices.

You’ll mentor teams, drive migrations, and enforce zero-trust principles while aligning with SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years in IT; experience can substitute degree.
• Customer-facing experience is essential.
• 12+ years administering cloud-based apps (MS O365, SharePoint, Azure AD, AWS).
• UiPath experience is a plus.
• Windows Server administration and related services.
• Strong Active Directory, Azure AD, and SAML knowledge.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Experience with UiPath, Ansible, AWS Console, Elastic, Splunk, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket, SaaS tools.
• Ability to onboard customer log-data from AWS/Azure to analysis environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, secure cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Create reference architectures, patterns, and standards for cloud implementations.
• Mentor development teams on cloud-native design and deployment.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and their impact on goals.
• Drive DevOps practices, IaC, and automation frameworks.
• Lead large-scale cloud migrations from planning to execution.
• Modernize legacy systems with containerization and microservices.
• Develop migration methodologies with minimal disruption.
• Onboard customers and enable a repeatable cloud adoption path.
• Optimize performance and reliability in cloud environments.
• Implement zero-trust and defense-in-depth cloud architectures.
• Ensure compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.
• Manage IAM solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
• Conduct security assessments and remediation in cloud environments.
• Collaborate with SMEs and security teams on secure architectures.
• Document architectures and maintain technical docs.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Cloud architecture

Cloud security

DevOps practices

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

UiPath

Ansible

AWS Console

Elastic

Splunk

Jira

Confluence

Git

Bitbucket

Job description

Leidos is leading the modernization of defense and intelligence technology from its Digital Modernization sector in the United States. We seek a Cloud Innovation Solution Engineer to architect cloud infrastructure for the Coast Guard in Alexandria, VA, guiding transformation with secure, scalable cloud native solutions and DevOps practices.

You’ll mentor teams, drive migrations, and enforce zero-trust principles while aligning with SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS standards.