Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leidos is a company dedicated to supporting mission-critical projects while investing in employee growth and development. They are seeking an AWS Cloud Systems Engineer to modernize a global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of the Department of the Air Force, focusing on AWS Engineering and cloud solutions.
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 AWS, 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
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years or more of experience; Master's and 6+ years or more of experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
- Must have a Secret Clearance
- Ship required
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
- Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position
- Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, Jira, Confluence, Git, and multiple AWS 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
Benefits
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Flexible schedules
- Discounted stock purchase plans
- Career growth
- Education and training support
- Parental paid leave
Company Overview
Dice is a job-searching platform for technology professionals. It is a sub-organization of DHI Group. It was founded in 1990, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.dice.com.