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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
245 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$107,900–$195,050
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As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer at Leidos in Clarksburg, WV, you will join a team dedicated to supporting federal law enforcement agencies by managing and securing large-scale IT infrastructures. Your daily responsibilities include monitoring operational systems, resolving user issues, and integrating security architecture into the cloud-based infrastructure as code (IaC) lifecycle. You will also assist with system deployment, patching, and maintenance while contributing to technical design, development, and integration tasks in an Agile environment. Key technologies you'll work with include Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, AWS services like EKS and EC2, and monitoring tools such as Grafana and Elasticsearch. Ideal candidates have expertise in immutable infrastructure design using HashiCorp Packer, automated image pipelines, and configuration management with Ansible, along with a strong understanding of cybersecurity best practices and Citrix virtualization technologies.
AWS
Azure
Microsoft Sentinel
Defender
PowerShell
Bash
DevSecOps
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DoD STIG
CI/CD
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RHEL
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