Cloud Engineering Lead
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Leidos. Remote, United States · full-time · $131,300–$237,350 base.
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What you'll do
- Design and deploy Azure infrastructure, platform and software services as code for user needs
- Guide cloud engineers through mentoring and work with technical leads on engineering decisions
- Shape enterprise cloud and mission architecture, and assess application designs against modernization needs
- Move applications and data center capabilities into cloud environments while supporting zero-trust efforts
- Apply security practices and find ways to improve user experience, efficiency and sustainment costs
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least twelve years of relevant work
- Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, and building cloud solutions on Azure, AWS or GCP
- Hands-on background with infrastructure as code, delivery pipelines and automation platforms
- Knowledge of identity and access management and federal security standards such as NIST or FedRAMP
- An active IAT Level II or higher certification, such as Security+ or CISSP
Who this fits
This senior role suits an experienced cloud engineering lead who can guide a distributed technical team and contribute hands-on across cloud design and migration. You must be a U.S. citizen with an active SECRET-level or higher DoD clearance. The job is remote in the United States, with visits to Ft. Meade as needed.
From the employer
Leidos is seeking an experience Cloud Engineering Lead to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team, who will support an extensive digital modernization program critical to Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and Department of Defense (DoD) Fourth Estate Agencies. The Senior Cloud Engineer will design, develop, configure, and deploy IaaS/PaaS and SaaS services within the Azure Cloud to fulfill end user requirements.
The position will support multiple engineering projects modernizing the DoD Environment, including the migration of applications from on-premise to the cloud and zero-trust network initiatives. Engineering efforts will include design, deployment, test, and migration of the solutions the candidate develops.
PROGRAM Link: www.leidos.com/des
JOB LOCATION: Remote (Onsite at Ft. Meade as needed)
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Must possess an Active SECRET or above DoD clearance to be considered. (US Citizenship required)
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide thought leadership and mentoring to team of cloud engineers, including frequent collaboration with the other technical team leads and solutions engineers
- Design and deploy as code system architecture for IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services in the Azure Cloud
- Provide inputs to the design of the enterprise’s cloud and mission architecture
- Evaluate and support application architectures across platforms to ensure alignment to cloud and application modernization strategies, capabilities and requirements
- Continually identify opportunities for improvement, including innovations aimed at improving the user experience, improving efficiencies, and lowering sustainment costs
- Enforce security best practices and guidelines, leveraging knowledge of security policies, network security, and data security
- Initiate frequent interactions with the team of cloud engineers to identify areas of improvement and facilitate their career growth, including participation in annual performance reviews
- Scale cloud solutions, and migrate data center capabilities to the cloud, enabling the support of Fourth Estate Networks and Users supporting approximately 400k users.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 12+ years of prior relevant experience
- Experience managing teams of engineers, including mentoring and fostering communication and collaboration across the team
- Expertise designing, deploying, and operating solutions built on Azure, AWS or GCP
- Experience with Identity Access Management (IDAM), AzureAD, and CyberArk, Okta or other modern ICAM solutions.
- Experience developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC), utilizing continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, and leveraging automation platforms such as Ansible or Azure Functions
- Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements such as NIST, FedRAMP, and FISMA
- Ability to work effectively within a distributed technical team, aided by strong written and verbal communication skills
- Current IAT Level II (or higher) Certification such as Security + or CISSP
Preferred Qualifications
- Recognized cloud certification, such as Microsoft Azure Associate Administrator
- Familiarity with the Atlassian suite, including Jira and Confluence
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Original Posting:
October 7, 2026For 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 Range:
Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00The 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.
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