AWS Cloud Architect Manager (USAF Cloud One)

Leidoswas awardedthe U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contractandcurrently hasan opening for aCloudEngineer/ArchitectManager.This positionfocuses onMultiCloud Managementand will coordinate across multiple areas as the programsupportsAWS Azure Google and Oracle clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experiencetomodernize a leading global-scalemulti-cloud environmentin support of a critical mission supporting USAF system resiliency security and cost effectiveness.

Location:

These positions will behybridremote. Candidateswillbe requiredto work onsite as needed. Preferred candidates will belocatednear Hanscom AFB (Boston MA)orwork in Huntsville AL.

Primary ResponsibilitiesInclude:

We areseekinga highly capable CloudManager. This individual willbe responsible formanaging a team as well as contributing as an individual bydesigning scalable cloud-native solutions leading development efforts and ensuring best practices across architecture development deployment and security.

• Oversight: Manage the team ensuring the cloud infrastructure meets security performance and scalability requirements

• Team Leadership: Lead mentor and develop staff fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement

• Service and Integration: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 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.

• Identifyand mitigate risks that couldimpactprogram success develop risk mitigation strategies andfacilitateresolution.

• Provides leadership during Transition-In ensuring continuity of operations minimal disruption to mission-critical services and effective risk identification and mitigation.

• Setting team priorities strategic visionmaintainingquality and product roadmaps.

• Establish organization policies standards and engineering procedures.

• Project Monitoring and Control: Tracking project progressmonitoringperformance against established SLAs metrics and taking corrective actions as needed.

• Quality Assurance: Ensuring that all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and requirements.

• Continuous Improvement:Identifyingopportunities 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.

• Conduct design reviews system integrations and develop comprehensiveas-builtand runbook documentation.

• Implement and manage performance monitoring tools and processes to ensureoptimalsystem performance and availability.

• Implement automation solutionsleveragingtools such as Ansible and various scripting languages to streamline hosting operations and reduce manual intervention.

Technical Leadership

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions

• Present architectural designs and recommendations to executive leadership

• Mentorguideand supervise development teams on cloud-native application design and deployment

• Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions

• Act as theCloud Managerto assess employee performance hire new employees and ensure compliance with corporate training requirementsfor Leidos employees

MinimumQualifications

• Bachelors and12years or more of experience; Masters and10years or more of experience.Additionalexperience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

• Interim Secret clearanceto start; Ability to obtain Secret clearancetomaintainemployment

• US citizenship

• Certifications: CompTIA Security or equivalent (IAT-2)

• Certifications: One or more cloud certification

• Excellent customer service skills with experience working in a customer-facing position

• Administration experience with cloud-based applications

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

• Experience with various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings

• Experience onboarding customer log-data fromcloud platformstoon-premiseor cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1

• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture

• Cloud certificationsin AWS Azure Google or Oracle clouds

• 4 years of prior experience managing/leading teams/projects

• Experience with multiple CSPs/Clouds

• CertificationExamples -AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional)Azure Solutions Architect (Expert)MCSE (Server) Certified AWSSysAdmin AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS Certified Developer AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Dev/Associate) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer AWS Certified Advanced Networking AWS Certified Security Azure Developer Associate Azure Solutions Architect