Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers. They are seeking a Microsoft Azure Architecture and Engineering Manager to design scalable cloud-native solutions, lead development efforts, and ensure best practices in a multi-cloud environment supporting the Department of the Air Force.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years or more of experience; Master's and 10+years or more of experience, additional year 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
- Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
- Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
- Cloud certifications in Azure