Leidos is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to support the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) effort. This person should be a seasoned, self-motivated, and professional with at least 5 years of hands-on engineering and administration experience in virtualized Information Technology environments. Experience with infrastructure as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, and with designing and engineering commercial cloud environments, architectures, and designs is preferred.
This position is 100% on-site in Arlington, VA. Occasional, situational travel within the DC-Metro area may be required.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include operational engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer.
- Design, build, and maintain capabilities utilizing the current Amazon C2S enabled architecture and tools to include Ansible, Cloud Formation, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, S3, Terraform, and containerization.
- Configure and manage core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, and Config.
- Operate and improve reliability/availability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continual service improvement.
- Automate system deployments and operational tasks using scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- Document and deliver an approach for automated testing including integration, regression, and acceptance testing, including tools and processes.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation (build guides, runbooks, diagrams, and operational procedures).
- Manage, sustain, and improve the integration and testing environments on the unclassified and classified infrastructure both on premise and in the cloud to validate all capabilities and technologies prior to being deployed on the production environment.
- Stage new and upgraded services components or services to integration and testing environment.
- Develop and engineer improvements to the cloud infrastructure and architecture to support continuous development and continuous integration utilizing modern practices and tools.
- Support and perform deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (i.e., CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket).
- Maintain documentation of code developed in support of CESO environments.
- Support patching, logging, vulnerability scanning, and compliance tracking.
- Participate in the release management process.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and Jira-based task tracking.
- Develop automation to reduce manual operations (provisioning, patching, backups, scaling, routine maintenance.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Candidate must currently have a TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Poly.
- BA/BS and 8-12 years of experience in Information Technology.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud services reinforced with architectural design experience.
- 4 years’ extensive experience in AWS Cloud Technologies and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
- 4 years’ experience in implementing Amazon C2S enabled architectures and tools to include Ansible, Cloud Formations, Terraform, JMETER, EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, GIT and S3.
- 4 years’ experience in building end-to-end solutions on AWS leveraging Object Oriented Programing (OOP) programming. (Python, Ruby, Java, PHP) and AWS SDK.
- Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (i.e., CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Bitbucket)
- IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Prior experience with DISA and DISA’s support to mission partners.
- Experience or familiarity with Citrix VDI/VDA.
ABOUT OUR PROGRAM:
With the CESO effort, the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) is looking to transform the existing Secure Web Services (SWS) environment, used to provide secure information sharing to the community, into a more mature service offering to meet the DoD and IC community. The program will support an automated platform capable of supporting a rapidly expanding customer population.
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Original Posting:
August 4, 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 $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
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.