AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Leidos

Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract, and is seeking a talented AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. This exciting opportunity involves modernizing a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost-effectiveness in a critical mission.

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) or work in Huntsville, AL.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop scalable cloud-native solutions, ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security.
• Perform cloud operations and engineering tasks to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure AWS cloud solutions.
• Adopt and utilize DevSecOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
• Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments through development and sustainment activities.
• Design, implement, and sustain secure cloud architectures and networks, implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
• Maintain 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.
• Support development of migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions.
• Utilize CI/CD workflows and infrastructure-as-code development using 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.
• Support preparation of detailed technical documentation of development and operational processes.
• Work in cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience, or Master's degree and 2+ years of experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of a 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).
• Practiced verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to participate in team efforts to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Demonstrated experience in cloud operations and sustainment, performing tasks and actions described in the primary responsibilities section.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture; experience is a plus.
• Capable of working in high-powered teams and maintaining positive interpersonal relationships.
• Understanding Active Directory, AWS AD, SAML, and related standards, procedures, and processes.
• Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket, and various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings for DEV/SEC/OPS pipeline development.
• Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, SharePoint, AWS AD, AWS).
• Experience administering Windows Server and related services.
• Cloud certifications in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle clouds (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).

Key skills/competency

• AWS Cloud
• DevSecOps
• Infrastructure as Code
• Cloud Security
• Containerization
• CI/CD
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Kubernetes
• SQL/NoSQL Databases