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
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
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
Assess employee performance, hire new employees, and ensure compliance with corporate training requirements for Leidos employees
Requirements
Bachelors and 12+ years or more of experience; Masters and 10+ years or more of experience
Secret clearance required to start
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