Senior Cloud EngineerLeidos
Description
Analysis Solutions Business Area (ASBA) is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer in Reston, Virginia. The successful candidate will work as a member of a government contractor team managing and securing mission critical infrastructure. You will work in a hybrid environment, bridging the gap between unclassified and classified enclaves, while ensuring compliance with federal mandates. You will act as a key technical resource, driving automation, cloud-native modernization, and secure operations across isolated cloud boundaries. Work will be performed in a fast-paced, high-energy environment inside a government facility.
Primary Responsibility
Cloud Architecture & Engineering:
- Architect, design, and deploy secure, scalable, and highly available AWS solutions tailored for unclassified and classified environments.
- Ensure seamless hybrid connectivity and secure data replication between unclassified and classified networks/enclaves.
- Provision and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
Security & Compliance:
- Implement strict security controls to align with DoD RMF, NIST SP 800-53, and CIS/STIG hardening guidelines across all AWS instances.
- Manage Identity and Access Management (IAM), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and secure key management utilizing AWS KMS.
- Audit and validate air-gapped or classified cloud environments to ensure they strictly adhere to federal data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption standards.
Operations & Deployment:
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, GitHub Actions) for smooth, automated, and audited deployments.
- Monitor cloud system performance, availability, and reliability, proactively resolving infrastructure defects and bottlenecks.
- Troubleshoot complex, interconnected cloud stacks, performing root-cause analysis when operational issues occur.
Qualifications
- TS/SCI Clearance w/Polygraph is required to be considered
- Must be a US Citizen
- Requires an in-depth understanding of technical principles, theories, concepts and their application across range of programs. Typically requires BS degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience. A with a minimum of 3+ years of hands-on, production-level AWS cloud engineering experience.
- Demonstrated ability designing or operating within AWS GovCloud (US) regions.
- Experience with AWS Core services (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS.)
- Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience in OS and Scripting with Python.
- Understanding of DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG), RMF, and NIST frameworks
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or DoD 8570/8140 compliance (e.g., CompTIA Security+).
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Original Posting:
June 16, 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.
