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About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
Leidos currently has
264 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$92,300–$166,850
across 245 roles with salary data.
Cloud Engineer
The senior Cloud Engineer joins the Intelligence Group to manage and secure mission-critical infrastructure within a hybrid environment bridging unclassified and classified enclaves. This role involves architecting, designing, and deploying scalable solutions across AWS GovCloud and Azure while ensuring compliance with federal mandates like RMF and NIST SP 800-53. Daily responsibilities include provisioning Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation, managing containerized workloads on Amazon EKS or Azure Kubernetes Service, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines via GitLab or GitHub Actions. The candidate will manage identity access, network segmentation, and secure data replication across air-gapped systems. Technical requirements include proficiency in Python, Windows Server, Active Directory, and core AWS services like EC2, S3, and VPC. This position addresses the complex challenge of maintaining secure connectivity and automated operations within highly regulated, disconnected government environments.