Chief Engineer

R-00175783

Description
Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a Chief Engineer for 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, leading architecture, engineering, DevSecOps/SRE, cybersecurity, and operations teams in a product-aligned organization to modernizing the Cloud One environment.

Location:   

The Chief Engineer position is remote, with period travel to customer locations (including Hanscom AFB) required.

Primary Responsibilities Include:   

As the Cloud One Chief Engineer, you will lead cross functional teams development and implementation of scalable cloud-native solutions, and ensure best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security. This role is essential to ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You’ll work closely across the architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams, under the guidance of program leadership, to drive continuous improvement and deliver value to the mission.  

  

• Responsible for the overall integrity, quality, and completeness of technical work performed and associated deliverables.
• Implement and lead cross-discipline integration among teams within the contract fostering a culture of innovation. 
• Apply systems engineering principles throughout the systems lifecycle phases: Concept, Development, Production, Utilization, Support, and Retirement.
• Interact with the Government regarding Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues, or conflicts.
• Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
• Provide matrixed leadership over approximately 150 engineers, operators, architects, and cybersecurity professionals.

• Lead using software engineering and security principles to build and maintain scalable, highly reliable, and performant large-scale systems 

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated software delivery. 

• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 

• ​Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability and performance  

• ​​Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch  

• ​Work with operations leadership to implement incident response and postmortem processes to drive continuous improvement, including troubleshooting production incidents, performing root cause analysis and resolution

• ​Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into application design and deployment  

• Lead capacity planning including forecasting resource needs to ensure systems can scale effectively.   

• ​Ensure compliance with security best practices, including IAM, VPC design, and encryption standards  

• ​Implement DevSecOps pipelines for a variety of technical stacks on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. 

• Lead the implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.  

• Lead the deployment and management of applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).  

• Configure and optimize container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).  

• Maintain high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud-based systems.  

• ​Configure and maintain virtualized environments to ensure performance, scalability, and security 

• ​Support infrastructure modernization efforts by integrating virtualization solutions into hybrid cloud environments.  

• Implement automated security tools for vulnerability scanning, static/dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and container security.  

• Drive consistency for deployment and build processes 

• Establish proactive monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and availability.  

• ​Embed security best practices into the SDLC and CI/CD processes.  

• Develop strategy and integration methodology around design, development and implementation of cloud based solutions 

• Enable the quick development and release of changes and bug-fixes on an as-required basis and incorporate feedback from developers/users. 

• Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes 

  

Technical Leadership  

• Lead cross-functional, matrixed technical teams comprising resources from architecture, engineering, security, and operations in a product-oriented manner to implement Cloud One innovations and modernizations, as well as ongoing continual enhancements
• 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 teams for related activities  

• Lead reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions  

• Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes 

• Collaborate with team members and provide mentorship to junior staff, fostering a learning environment  

Minimum Qualifications  

• Bachelors and fifteen (15) Masters and  twelve (12) years or more of experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree. 

• 4+ years of prior experience managing/leading teams/projects 

• Active Secret clearance at a minimum required to start  

• US citizenship required 

• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2) 

• ​​Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills  

• ​Ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment   

• Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills  

• ​​Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and practices. 
• Familiarty with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and/or Kanban. 

• Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position  

• ​Strong knowledge of security principles, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and encryption techniques.  

• Deep understanding of CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Argo CD).  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1, or other enterprise cloud environments

• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture 

• Cloud certifications in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle clouds 

• ​​Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack).  

• ​Solid understanding of networking, Linux/Unix systems, and version control systems (e.g., Git)  

• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Bash, Go).  

• ​Experience with configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).  

• ​Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).  

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Original Posting: February 11, 2026

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: Pay Range $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits .

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