​AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Ops Support

Leidos is a leading company in the cloud services domain, currently seeking AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineers to support critical missions for the U.S. Air Force. The role involves developing scalable cloud-native solutions, ensuring best practices in architecture, deployment, and security, while performing cloud operations and engineering tasks to maintain resilient cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Perform cloud operations and engineering tasks to enhance, sustain, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for AWS cloud environment
• Perform AWS cloud operations, sustainment, and maintenance activities to maintain optimum cloud
• Adopt and utilize DevSecOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks
• Through development and sustainment activities, optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments
• 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

Requirements:

• Bachelors and 4+ years or more of experience; Masters and 2+ years or more of experience. Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
• Secret clearance required
• US citizenship required
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
• Practiced verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to participate in team efforts to accomplish assigned tasks
• Demonstrated experience in cloud operations and sustainment and performing tasks and actions described in the primary responsibilities section
• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture. Experience a plus
• Capable of working in high powered teams and maintaining positive interpersonal relationships while delivering products and services to the customer
• Understanding Active Directory, AWS AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes
• Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, AWS, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket and various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings to conduct DEV/SEC/OPS pipeline development activities
• 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
• Certification Examples - AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional), Azure Solutions Architect (Expert), MCSE (Server), Certified AWS SysAdmin, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Dev/Associate), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified Security, Azure Developer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect