​AZURE Cloud Engineer Ops Support

Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract, and currently has an opening for 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:  

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

Primary Responsibilities: 
We are seeking an Azure Cloud Operation and support Engineer 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 from design, test, integration, production, sustainment and maintenance.  This is a hands-on technical role that requires rolling up your sleeves to architect, code, debug, and mentor.  

• Provide cloud operations and engineering tasks to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for Azure cloud environment 

• Perform Azure cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance activities to maintain optimum cloud performance, security, and cloud user experience  

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

• Continuously evaluate emerging cloud technologies to maximize automation and perform assessments of the potential impact on organizational and program goals  

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

• Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments  

• Support Design, implementation and sustainment of 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  

• Architect, implement and maintain cloud networking security controls including STIG requirements 

• Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks