Microsoft Azure Architecture and Engineering Manager

Microsoft Azure Architecture and Engineering Manager at Leidos

Are you ready to work for a company that not only supports mission critical projects but also prioritizes investing in the growth and development of its employees?

Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead! You will enjoy great benefits such as paid time off (PTO), flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, career growth, education and training support, parental paid leave and more! You will have the opportunity to work under exceptional industry leadership at every level, where prioritizing employees, and their work, is paramount.

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos is brimming with exciting new opportunities—and we want you to be part of it!

Role Overview

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 a Microsoft Azure Architecture and Engineering Manager. This position focuses on Azure Engineering and Management and will coordinate across multiple areas as the program supports 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.

This position is remote.

Primary Responsibilities

We are seeking highly capable Cloud Architects with expertise in multiple cloud platforms. A successful individual will be responsible for designing scalable cloud-native solutions, leading development efforts, and ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security. This is a combination management and hands-on technical role that requires rolling up your sleeves to architect, code, debug, and mentor.

• 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 Microsoft Azure, 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.

Technical Leadership

• 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 of up to 15 engineers and technical specialists on cloud-native application design and deployment.
• Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years or more of experience; Master’s and 10+ years or more of experience, additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Must have a Secret Clearance.
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2).
• Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position.
• Experience administering Windows and Linux Servers, and related services.
• Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Experience with Ansible, Azure console, Elastic, Jira, Confluence, Git, and multiple Azure 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1.
• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture.
• Cloud certifications in Azure.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Architecture
• Azure Engineering
• DevOps Practices
• Multi-Cloud Environment
• Security Best Practices
• Infrastructure as Code
• Containerization
• Technical Leadership
• Active Directory
• SQL/NoSQL Databases