Cloud Engineer- Senior

Leidos is a leading technology company that supports the SEC ISS contract by providing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprise applications and services. The Cloud Engineer - Senior role is crucial for ensuring reliable integration of cloud and on-premises environments, driving automation-first operations, and providing technical leadership across cloud engineering activities.

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and Operations
• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with Azure as the primary platform and AWS support focused on integration with project-team-managed workloads and potential future expansion
• Build and maintain cloud networking, storage, compute, app services, virtualization, and containerized environments
• Ensure scalability, resiliency, and high availability through proactive performance tuning, capacity planning, and operational optimization
• Partner with operations teams to monitor production services, resolve incidents, and improve reliability across cloud platforms
• May require participation in on-call or surge support activities depending on operational
• Security, Identity, and Compliance
• Implement and maintain cloud security configurations aligned with SEC security policies and zero-trust principles
• Engineer and support identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra, RBAC, conditional access, and least-privilege models
• Enforce governance controls and policy compliance to support organizational and regulatory requirements, audit readiness, and risk reduction
• Drive patching, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration baselines across cloud-hosted infrastructure
• Automation, IaC, and CI/CD Enablement
• Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure
• Integrate infrastructure workflows with CI/CD pipelines to standardize deployments, reduce manual effort, and improve release quality
• Implement reusable IaC modules, scripting standards, and version-controlled operational artifacts
• Advance automated operating models to increase consistency, security, and scalability
• Migration, Modernization, and Technical Leadership
• Lead migration of workloads from legacy/on-premises platforms to modern cloud and hybrid architectures with minimal disruption
• Optimize cloud resource utilization, cost, and service performance based on operational and mission priorities
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and cross-functional infrastructure teams
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, SOPs, and implementation guidance to support sustainable operations

Requirements:

• This position is restricted to U.S. citizens only. Applicants must not hold dual citizenship with any other country to be eligible for work under this contract
• The ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required)
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, including 5+ years focused on cloud engineering. Additional years' of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services
• Proven experience leading cloud migration and modernization efforts in regulated environments
• Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud services (Azure primary; AWS integration support experience)
• Cloud networking, storage, app services, virtualization, and containerization
• PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation practices
• Cloud governance, policy enforcement, and operational compliance
• Microsoft Entra identity services, RBAC, and access management
• Zero-trust security principles and secure cloud configuration practices
• Experience supporting federal agency IT environments with FISMA/FedRAMP-driven security and compliance requirements
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native container platform operations
• Experience integrating observability and ITSM platforms to improve incident response and service reliability
• Experience implementing immutable infrastructure and policy-as-code controls in enterprise environments
• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices to optimize spend and performance
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate