Enterprise Sustainment Lead

Leidos is seeking a Principal Enterprise Sustainment Leadto serve as the senior integrator responsible for mission sustainment operational performance and enterprise readinessacross a large-scale defense program or portfolio.

This role operates at the intersection of operations engineering cybersecurity workforce management and program finance ensuring that critical national security systems remain fully mission capable compliant and optimized.

The selected candidate will act as a key advisor to Program Leadershipand a primary interface to senior government stakeholders (O-6/GS-15/SES) with responsibility for sustainment strategy execution and continuous improvement across the enterprise.

The Principal Enterprise Sustainment Leadis accountable for ensuring that mission-critical defense systems remain operational secure and fully staffed at scale while driving continuous improvement financial performance and customer satisfaction.

This role is critical to maintaining mission assurance for national security programsand positioning Leidos for long-term growth and recompete success.

Primary responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sustainment executionfor mission-critical systems supporting DoD/IC customers
• Ensure system availability reliability and SLA/KPI performanceacross all operational environments
• Lead incident response recovery operations and continuity planningfor mission-impacting events
• Develop and execute multi-year sustainment strategiesaligned to mission evolution and contract objectives
• Lead technology refresh and modernization planning including DevSecOps and cloud sustainment models
• Ensure alignment between current operations and future-state architecture
• Oversee and influence program financial health including forecasting EAC and margin optimization
• Drive cost efficiency initiativeswhile maintaining mission performance and compliance
• Support proposal development BOEs and recompete strategies
• Develop and execute cleared workforce strategiesto maintain full staffing and reduce attrition
• Manage workforce forecasting clearance processing timelines Subcontractor integration and performance
• Partner with recruiting and security teams to ensure sustained workforce readiness
• Ensure enterprise adherence to RMF / NIST 800-53 requirements ATO sustainment and continuous monitoring
• Oversee vulnerability management patching and secure configuration compliance
• Brief senior government leadership (SES Flag Officers)on mission performance risk posture & operational status
• Manage customer expectations escalations and performance discussions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Engineering Finance or related field(or equivalent experience)
• 1215 yearsof experience in Defense or IC programs or Enterprise operations sustainment or program leadership
• Demonstrated experience:
  • Leading large-scale sustainment efforts ($100M programs)
  • Managing cross-functional teams in cleared environments
  • Supporting DoD/IC customers and contract structures (CPFF T&M FFP)

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience as a Deputy Program Manager Operations Lead or Enterprise Lead
• Expertise in RMF / ATO sustainment and/or DevSecOps or cloud-based sustainment models is strongly preferred
• Experience supporting DISA NSA NGA or other IC/DoD agencies
• Masters degree (MBA Engineering or related discipline)

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