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Leidos · 12 hours ago

AWS Cloud Architect Manager (USAF Cloud One)

Leidos is a leading technology company serving government and commercial customers, currently seeking a Cloud Engineer/Architect Manager. This role focuses on managing a team while designing scalable cloud-native solutions and ensuring best practices in a multi-cloud environment for the U.S. Air Force.

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Responsibilities

Manage the team ensuring the cloud infrastructure meets security, performance, and scalability requirements
Lead, mentor, and develop staff, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
Implement, and deploy services using best practices for service delivery, incident management, and problem resolution, ensuring compliance with SLAs and KPIs
Work closely with operations, application development, and business area to ensure alignment of cloud services with overall requirements and objectives
Manages engineering and architecture staffing including hiring and employee management while ensuring cleared and certified personnel are aligned to requirements
Organize, direct and coordinate planning and execution of engineering activities, and review the work of subordinates, including subcontractors, to ensure that the schedule, standards, and reporting responsibilities are met
Identify and mitigate risks that could impact program success, develop risk mitigation strategies, and facilitate resolution
Provides leadership during Transition-In, ensuring continuity of operations, minimal disruption to mission-critical services, and effective risk identification and mitigation
Setting team priorities, strategic vision, maintaining quality and product roadmaps
Establish organization policies, standards, and engineering procedures
Tracking project progress, monitoring performance against established SLA’s, metrics, and taking corrective actions as needed
Ensuring that all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and requirements
Identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices and documentation to enhance delivery quality and speed
Interacts with the customer directly and communicates concerns to Leidos project management and technical team members
Conduct design reviews, system integrations, and develop comprehensive as-built and runbook documentation
Implement and manage performance monitoring tools and processes to ensure optimal system performance and availability
Implement automation solutions, leveraging tools such as Ansible and various scripting languages, to streamline hosting operations and reduce manual intervention
Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
Present architectural designs and recommendations to executive leadership
Mentor, guide and supervise development teams on cloud-native application design and deployment
Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions
Act as the Cloud Manager to assess employee performance, hire new employees, and ensure compliance with corporate training requirements for Leidos employees

Qualification

Cloud ManagementMulti-Cloud ArchitectureCloud CertificationsTeam LeadershipCompTIA Security+Cloud Software as a ServiceZero Trust ArchitectureCustomer Service SkillsContinuous ImprovementCommunication

Required

Bachelors and 12+ years or more of experience; Masters and 10+ years or more of experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
Interim Secret clearance required to start; Ability to obtain Secret clearance required to maintain employment
US citizenship required
Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
Certifications: One or more cloud certification
Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position
Administration experience with cloud-based applications
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Experience with various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings
Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premise or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk

Preferred

Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
Cloud certifications in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle clouds
4+ years of prior experience managing/leading teams/projects
Experience with multiple CSPs/Clouds
Certification Examples - AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional), Azure Solutions Architect (Expert), MCSE (Server), Certified AWS SysAdmin, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Dev/Associate), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified Security, Azure Developer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect

Benefits

Health and Wellness programs
Income Protection
Paid Leave
Retirement

Company

Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
unknown
2025-02-20Post Ipo Debt
2013-09-17IPO

Leadership Team

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James Carlini
Chief Technology Officer
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Theodore Tanner
Chief Technology Officer
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