Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract. Leidos is seeking a Cloud Engineers across AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.

Location:

These positions will be hybrid remote. Candidates will be required to work onsite as needed. Preferred candidates will be located near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA) or work in Huntsville, AL.

Primary Responsibilities

Could Include:

We are seeking Cloud Engineers with expertise in multiple cloud platforms. A successful individual will be responsible for developing in a scalable cloud-native solutions, and ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security. This is a hands-on technical role that requires rolling up your sleeves to architect, code, debug, and mentor.

• ​​Design and architect scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for AWS, Azure, Google, and/or Oracle environments

• ​Develop cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with organization objectives and technical requirements

• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals

• ​Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks

• Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments

• ​Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies

• ​Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements

• ​Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks

• Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption

• Assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies including containerization and microservices

• ​Develop migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions

• Manage and optimize cloud environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems.

• Implement and maintain Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support Dev Sec Ops practices.

• Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency.

• Support the design and development of Shared Services.

• Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.

• Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability.

• Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes.

• Conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management

• ​Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations

Technical Leadership

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions

• ​Present architectural designs and recommendations to executive leadership

• ​Mentor, guide and supervise development teams on cloud-native application design and deployment

• Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions

• Lead large-scale cloud migration projects from planning through execution

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors and twelve (12) years or more of experience; Masters and ten (10) years or more of experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

• Secret Security Clearance

• US citizenship required

• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)

• ​​Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

• ​​Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premise or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1

• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture

• Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position

• ​Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes

• Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, AWS, Azure, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket and various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings

• Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, Share Point, Azure AD, AWS)

• ​Experience administering Windows Server, and related services

• Cloud certifications in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle clouds

• Certification Examples - ​AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional), Azure Solutions Architect (Expert), ​MCSE (Server), Certified AWS Sys Admin, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Dev/Associate), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified Security, Azure Developer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect

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Original Posting:

March 5, 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 Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

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.