Chief Engineer

Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a Chief Engineer for 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, leading architecture, engineering, DevSecOps/SRE, cybersecurity, and operations teams in a product-aligned organization to modernizing the Cloud One environment.

Location:  

The Chief Engineer position is remote, with period travel to customer locations (including Hanscom AFB) required.

Primary Responsibilities Include:  

As the Cloud One Chief Engineer, you will lead cross functional teams development and implementation of scalable cloud-native solutions, and ensure best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security. This role is essential to ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You’ll work closely across the architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams, under the guidance of program leadership, to drive continuous improvement and deliver value to the mission.  

• Responsible for the overall integrity, quality, and completeness of technical work performed and associated deliverables.
• Implement and lead cross-discipline integration among teams within the contract fostering a culture of innovation. 
• Apply systems engineering principles throughout the systems lifecycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement.
• Interact with the Government regarding Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
• Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
• Provide matrixed leadership over approximately 150 engineers, operators, architects, and cybersecurity professionals.

• Lead using software engineering and security principles to build and maintain scalable, highly reliable, and performant large-scale systems 

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated software delivery. 

• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 

• ​Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability and performance  

• ​​Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch  

• ​Work with operations leadership to implement incident response and postmortem processes to drive continuous improvement, including troubleshooting production incidents, performing root cause analysis and resolution

• ​Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into application design and deployment  

• Lead capacity planning including forecasting resource needs to ensure systems can scale effectively.   

• ​Ensure compliance with security best practices, including IAM, VPC design, and encryption standards  

• ​Implement DevSecOps pipelines for a variety of technical stacks on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. 

• Lead the implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.  

• Lead the deployment and management of applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).  

• Configure and optimize container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).  

• Maintain high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud-based systems.  

• ​Configure and maintain virtualized environments to ensure performance, scalability, and security 

• ​Support infrastructure modernization efforts by integrating virtualization solutions into hybrid cloud environments.  

• Implement automated security tools for vulnerability scanning, static/dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and container security.  

• Drive consistency for depl