Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently an opening for a Network Architecture Manager supporting AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.
The Cloud Engineering & Architecture Manager will provide leadership and mentorship to engineering staff, fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and adherence to organizational policies and standards. The successful candidate evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for total systems for systems requirements analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, technical management, integration, system testing, and quality assurance. The manager will drive service engineering best practices, project planning, and quality assurance, while improving performance against SLAs and implementing proactive actions including implementing automation to optimize operations.
The Cloud Engineering and Architecture Manager will be an integral part of the team that interacts with the customer to focus on optimization and enhancements to ensure satisfaction and assist with business growth and new task orders; the role requires partnership with multiple areas within Leidos to achieve business objectives in a dynamic environment with evolving program and proposal requirements.
*Please note - the position is based near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA) with telework/remote part of the time. Alternative work locations may be considered if the right candidate commits to regular travel to meet with customer or program leadership.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Engineering Oversight: Manage the engineering and architecture teams ensuring the cloud infrastructure meets security, performance, and scalability requirements
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineering staff, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Service Engineering and Integration: Engineer, implement, and deploy services using best practices for service delivery, incident management, and problem resolution, ensuring compliance with SLAs and KPIs
- Collaboration: Work closely with operations, application development, and business area to ensure alignment of cloud services with overall requirements and objectives
- Manages 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.
- Provides leadership to ensure 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.
- Project Monitoring and Control: Tracking project progress, monitoring performance against established SLA’s, metrics, and taking corrective actions as needed.
- Quality Assurance: Ensuring that all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and requirements.
- Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices and documentation to enhance delivery quality and speed.
- Interacts with the customer directly and communicates 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.
Basic Qualifications:
- 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
- Active Secret clearance at a minimum required to start
- US Citizen
Preferred Qualifications
- Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience
- Security+
- Cloud certification(s)
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Original Posting:
April 2, 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 $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
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.