AWS Cloud Engineer

The Leidos Spatial Solutions 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 (Authority To Operate - 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:

• Requires BS degree and 4+ years of prior relevant experience OR, MS with 2+ years of prior relevant experience; OR 6 years of additional experience in lieu of degree

• 4+ 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

• Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI Security Clearance with ability to obtain Poly CI

• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies

• 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

• Windows Domain Administrator of user accounts and group policy objects and Linux administration

• 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.

• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, diagrams, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of SFA organization; Aeronautical data and mission

• Experience with NGA cloud-based architecture

• DoD 8570 Certification Compliance (IAT Level 2/3)

• NGA Privileged User Account (NPU)

• 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 options

Original Posting:

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: