Cloud Engineer

The Leidos Air Team team has an opening for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to work on a cloud development and deployment team. The team is involved in the deployment and maintenance of multiple operational cloud deployed software solutions. A successful candidate will have experience across all AWS Environments and be able to provide analysis and recommendations for architectural and configuration updates. Primary Responsibilities * Collaborates with teams in the design and implementation of AWS system architectures to include operational status and security of government systems (ATO). * Reviews and provides input to system requirements based on cyber security posture. * Compiles industry best practices and lessons learned into future iterations and new designs.

• Provides architectural analysis of cloud configurations and connections.
• Supports the Engineering Review Board, evaluating artifacts for architectural

compliance. * Provides broad-based experience in the systems engineering lifecycle and applies the experience to specific AWS cloud initiatives relating to architectural design and development.

• Resolves architecture implementation issues during integration and test.
• Provides support directly or through team management, including triaging

system outages and ticket support resolution * Advises and assists teams to deploy and configure collection services and tools with 99.9% up-time * Works with team members to move data to the appropriate data stores and monitors dashboard metrics including costs, computational utilization and other future business needs * Validates and manages government systems changes; create, run and validate end-to-end testing Basic Qualifications * Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI

• DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3)
• Requires BS degree and & 5+ years’ experience consulting, designing and

implementing distributed solutions and 3+ years’ experience with cloud-based solutions (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) including virtualization environment, network and operating system experience OR 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree * Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)

• Familiar with team collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, RocketChat)
• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies
• Experience in Grafana
• Subject Matter Expertise understanding across AWS cloud technologies

including: EC2, PaaS (OpenShift), Lamdas, S3 buckets, Reserved Instances, etc.

• Understanding of code baseline management
• Utilization of the following: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Python, Gitlab,

CloudFormation, Zabbix, HPFortify, ACAS, PostgreSQL, Scrum, Kanban, Terraform * Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices * Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Demonstrates ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work, follow tasks to their

logical conclusion and ensure everything has been correctly satisfied to standard. Great attention to detail. * Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of SFA organization; Aeronautical data and mission
• Experience with NGA cloud-based architecture
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certifications
• Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies
• Native cloud templating services like AWS Cloud Formation
• Experience with Aeronautical datasets
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines and projects
• Experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) process of evaluating solution

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ORIGINAL POSTING:

July 29, 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 $87,100.00 - $157,450.00 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.