Join our team working on one of our most prestigious programs delivering Cloud modernization and operations to the Department of the Air Force on the Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services (ACSS) contract.
Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for an
AWS Cloud Systems Engineer.
This position focuses on AWS Engineering and 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 travel onsite as needed.
Primary Responsibilities:- Design and architect scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions across AWS and others.
- Develop cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with organization objectives and technical requirements.
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals.
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
- Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments.
- Design 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.
- Implement / integrate with identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
- Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption.
- Manage and optimize AWS, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems.
- Implement and maintain tools and services such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices.
- Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency.
- Support the design and development of Shared Services.
- Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.
- Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability.
- Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes.
- Conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.
- Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations.
Basic Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years or more of experience; Master's and 6+ years or more of experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Must have a Secret Clearance.
- US citizenship required.
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2).
- Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position.
- Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, Jira, Confluence, Git, and multiple AWS cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
- Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premises or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk.
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Original Posting:June 8, 2026
Pay Range:Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
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.
