Enterprise Sustainment Lead

R-00182334

Description

 Leidos is seeking a Principal Enterprise Sustainment Lead to serve as the senior integrator responsible for mission sustainment, operational performance, and enterprise readiness across a large-scale defense program or portfolio.

This role operates at the intersection of operations, engineering, cybersecurity, workforce management, and program finance, ensuring that critical national security systems remain fully mission capable, compliant, and optimized.

The selected candidate will act as a key advisor to Program Leadership and a primary interface to senior government stakeholders (O-6/GS-15/SES), with responsibility for sustainment strategy, execution, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.

The Principal Enterprise Sustainment Lead is accountable for ensuring that mission-critical defense systems remain operational, secure, and fully staffed at scale, while driving continuous improvement, financial performance, and customer satisfaction.

This role is critical to maintaining mission assurance for national security programs and positioning Leidos for long-term growth and recompete success.

Primary responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sustainment execution for mission-critical systems supporting DoD/IC customers
• Ensure system availability, reliability, and SLA/KPI performance across all operational environments
• Lead incident response, recovery operations, and continuity planning for mission-impacting events
• Develop and execute multi-year sustainment strategies aligned to mission evolution and contract objectives
• Lead technology refresh and modernization planning, including DevSecOps and cloud sustainment models
• Ensure alignment between current operations and future-state architecture
• Oversee and influence program financial health, including forecasting, EAC, and margin optimization
• Drive cost efficiency initiatives while maintaining mission performance and compliance
• Support proposal development, BOEs, and recompete strategies
• Develop and execute cleared workforce strategies to maintain full staffing and reduce attrition
• Manage workforce forecasting, clearance processing timelines, Subcontractor integration and performance
• Partner with recruiting and security teams to ensure sustained workforce readiness
• Ensure enterprise adherence to RMF / NIST 800-53 requirements, ATO sustainment and continuous monitoring
• Oversee vulnerability management, patching, and secure configuration compliance
• Brief senior government leadership (SES, Flag Officers) on mission performance, risk posture, & operational status
• Manage customer expectations, escalations, and performance discussions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 12–15+ years of experience in Defense or IC programs or Enterprise operations, sustainment, or program leadership
• Demonstrated experience:
  • Leading large-scale sustainment efforts ($100M+ programs)
  • Managing cross-functional teams in cleared environments
  • Supporting DoD/IC customers and contract structures (CPFF, T&M, FFP)

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience as a Deputy Program Manager, Operations Lead, or Enterprise Lead
• Expertise in RMF / ATO sustainment and/or DevSecOps or cloud-based sustainment models is strongly preferred
• Experience supporting DISA, NSA, NGA, or other IC/DoD agencies
• Master’s degree (MBA, Engineering, or related discipline)

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Original Posting: May 1, 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 $139,100.00 - $251,450.00

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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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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