Cloud Engineer

We are Leidos, an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. We are headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and employ about 47,000 people ברח worldwide, with annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. This Cloud Engineer role supports our DOMEX Technology Platform in Bethesda, MD, with most work performed on-site and a flexible schedule that may include occasional remote tasks. We offer competitive compensation along with Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave, and Retirement benefits. The pay range for this position is $107,900 to $195,050, with final compensation based on responsibilities, experience, skills, education, and other relevant factors.

- We require a bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience with 8–12 years in systems engineering or a similar field; a masters degree with 6+ years of experience is also acceptable.
- We require an active Top Secret/SCI clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with polygraph access.
- We require at least one DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II or higher certification, such as Security+, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, or CISSP Associate.
- We require the ability to obtain Privileged User Account certification under DoD 8570 policy.
- We require experience with Commercial Cloud Services and a strong understanding of secure cloud environments.
- We require familiarity with classified security enclaves.
- We require hands-on experience with cloud services for enterprise applications, preferably AWS.
- We require AWS administration knowledge, including EC2, ELB/ALB, S3, EFS, VPC, AWS CLI, and cloud fundamentals.
- We require experience with Amazon EKS.
- We require experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.
- We require experience with SecDevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- We require working knowledge of Linux operating systems.
- We require familiarity with web services, including APIs and REST.
- We require a strong understanding of networking and internet protocols.
- We require extensive experience with open-source technologies, software development, and systems engineering.
- We require scripting and tooling experience with UNIX shell, Python, Perl, or similar languages.
- We require infrastructure-as-code scripting experience, preferably with CDK or CloudFormation.
- We require configuration management experience with Salt or a similar tool such as Ansible.
- We require strong written and verbal communication skills to work with customers, domain experts, systems engineers, and architects.
- We require the ability to collaborate effectively with people from diverse disciplines and technical backgrounds.
- We consider AWS cloud certifications, microservices architecture experience, data processing knowledge, big data application experience, support experience for DIA/NMEC, DIA/OSIC, or D3P, and OSINT familiarity as strong advantages.

- We design, engineer, develop, deploy, and support cloud-based software for the DOMEX Technology Platform.
- We help centralize and standardize TCPED workflows for OSINT across the DoD and Intelligence Community enterprise.
- We integrate commercial and newly developed software to strengthen and sustain the TCPED platform.
- We use cloud computing, AI, machine learning, and cross-domain transfer systems to deliver advanced data exploitation, enrichment, triage, and analytics capabilities.
- We work on mission-focused big data analytics tools and microservice development across Agile sprints and long-term R&D efforts.
- We design, build, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure.
- We collaborate with cloud architects, solution architects, systems engineers, software engineers, operations leaders, and government stakeholders to manage our cloud solution and strategy.
- We prepare and maintain associated technical documentation.
- We identify and implement the most effective cloud-based solutions for the program.
- We deploy and troubleshoot cloud initiatives throughout the development lifecycle.
- We apply strong problem-solving skills to resolve technical challenges.
- We build and design cloud-based web services.
- We design and implement cloud platforms for the program.
- We coordinate with the DTP team to prioritize product backlogs for sprints and releases.
- We monitor and report technical variances and help resolve issues that could affect product delivery or total system cost.
- We identify and support external dependencies as needed.