Hybrid-Cloud Technical Advisor

Leidos is hiring an energetic motivated innovative individual to be a part of our team supporting Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore MD. The HybridCloud Technical Advisor works closely with the Program team CMS Hybrid Cloud Partners CMS Hosting Coordinators and CMS Stakeholders to manage maintain and optimize applications performance durability and cost to best support CMS and the general public. The HybridCloud Technical Advisor will deliver solutions that ultimately ensure that the functions of Medicare Medicaid and Marketplace are carried out for the US citizen and contribute to efforts to reduce healthcare costs.

As a HybridCloud Technical Advisor you will play a pivotal role in advising our customers on their cloud adoption and transformation journeys. Your expertise in cloud technologies coupled with strategic thinking and business acumen will enable our clients to leverage cloud solutions effectively to achieve their business objectives.

You will be the catalyst for solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of industry best practices. You will influence development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results while also leading work of other cloud partners. You will resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge conceptualizing reasoning and interpretation. You will interact daily with various technical resources across different vendors which are fulfilling technical requirements for the customer.

Your goal will be to work with all stakeholders to help Leidos ensure delivery of highquality robust and scalable solutions with minimal business impact. Lastly and most importantly you will represent the IUSG Front Office Managed Infrastructure Service Provider (MiSP) and CMS various Product Owners when meeting with the Application Development Organizations (ADO). You will help coordinate the identification of opportunities to provide support modernization innovation and other opportunities for their application.

The current work environment is remote leveraging various tools such as Slack Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Facilitate session(s) to understand detailed requirements (infra security etc.: overview of shared services offerings introduce managed services available additional deep dives as requested
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding and expertise in CMS Hybrid Cloud Product and Service offerings
• Develop and maintain close advisory relationships with the Application Development Organizations (ADOs) being supported within your portfolio
• Develop and maintain a strong positive relationship with CMS Hybrid Cloud Product teams including a thorough understanding of the Hybrid Cloud Product teams backlog and work ingestion process
• Ensure all ADOs supported within the portfolio maintain a strong security posture
• Through weekly/monthly reviews of performance and cost data lead performance and cost optimization efforts
• Lead all application migration and modernization efforts
• Coordinate and ensure all production readiness activities are complete prior to any major cutovers are conducted
• Create and maintain application profiles
• Coordinate Escalations on behalf of CMS IUSGs Shared Service Providers and O&M Teams.
• Apply Product Management principles to develop maintain optimize and evangelize various products across the CMS ecosystem.
• Maintain domain knowledge expertise in cloud operations and DevOps best practices.
• Influence development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results while also leading work of other technical staff.
• Resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge conceptualizing reasoning and interpretation.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent and 8 years of general experience or Masters and 6 years. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Experience managing a portfolio of applications
• Experience successfully working across multiple vendors
• Knowledge of cloudbased security tools best practices and policies including demonstrated experience protecting all layers of the application stack.
• Knowledge of the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage conflict effectively.
• Ability to adapt and be productive in a fastpaced dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations.
• Selfstarter selfmanaged and a team player.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cloud Certification (e.g. AWS SysOps Administrator Azure Administrator).

• Agilebased knowledge and skill including experience with Scrum Ceremonies and work management tools (e.g. (JIRA Confluence).
• Security SkillsKnowledge of information assurance compliance and information security basics within CMS.

Required Clearance

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

All candidates supporting the CMS programs must havelived in theUnited Statesatleastthree(3)out ofthelastfive(5)yearsprior in order to be considered.

Original Posting:

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:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.