Architecture & Engineering Manager (USAF Cloud One)​

Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for an Architecture & Engineering Manager supporting multi-cloud environments. This role involves providing leadership and mentorship to engineering staff while ensuring the cloud infrastructure meets security, performance, and scalability requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the engineering and architecture teams ensuring the cloud infrastructure meets security, performance, and scalability requirements
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineering staff, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
• Engineer, 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
• Manage engineering and architecture staffing including hiring and employee management within budget while ensuring cleared and certified personnel are aligned to requirements
• 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
• Provide leadership to ensure continuity of operations, minimal disruption to mission-critical services, and effective risk identification and mitigation
• Set team priorities, strategic vision, maintaining quality and product roadmaps
• Establish organization policies, standards, and engineering procedures
• Track project progress, monitor performance against established SLA’s, metrics, and take corrective actions as needed
• Ensure that all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and requirements
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering practices and documentation to enhance delivery quality and speed
• Interact with the customer directly and communicate concerns to Leidos project management and technical team members
• Oversee design reviews, system integrations, and develop comprehensive as-built and runbook documentation
• Oversee implementation and management of performance monitoring tools and processes to ensure optimal system performance and availability
• Oversee implementation automation solutions, leveraging tools such as Ansible and various scripting languages, to streamline hosting operations and reduce manual intervention

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years relevant experience OR Master's degree and 10+ years of experience
• Extensive engineering experience on large-scale programs with experience in Cloud environments
• Proven ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with various stakeholders, including leadership, peers, and external partners
• Ability to operate independently with limited supervision while building strong relationships across technical staff, division managers, and peers
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Disciplined strategic thinking and analytical problem-solving capabilities
• Strong business acumen, analytical capabilities, reliability, and sound judgment
• Experience with agile program execution
• Ability to travel as needed with a minimum of 25% required
• Active Secret clearance at a minimum required to start
• US Citizen
• Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience
• Security+
• Cloud certification(s)