Cloud Infrastucture & DevOps Engineer

The Digital Sector at Leidos has a career opening for an Associate Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer located in the Scott AFB IL area. This candidate will support the sustainment and ongoing development of the DISA Global Management System (GMS) providing support for GMS Cloud Network and Infrastructure services under general supervision. This role is ideal for a professional with a few years of experience looking to deepen their skills in cloud networking infrastructure automation and defense-sector DevOps practices.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the development testing and deployment of prototypes and solutions within Government Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services.

• Configure troubleshoot and resolve network connectivity issues for LAN WAN VPN DNS and Firewalls under general guidance.

• Assist in monitoring and managing scalability parameters in the cloud network infrastructure.

• Perform routine maintenance update devices to maintain current patch levels and manage regular configuration backups and archiving.

• Partner with senior architects and engineers to help implement and maintain Cloud Network solutions for AWS.

• Coordinate with software developers to facilitate and support smooth migrations of applications to the Cloud.

• Actively utilize Atlassian tools (JIRA Bitbucket Confluence) to track progress control source code and author technical documentation.

• Communicate key project data to team members and contribute actively to Agile team ceremonies and sprint goals.

• Generate and maintain clear structured documentation and visual diagrams of network and system layouts.

• Apply Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) to network and cloud infrastructure to maintain DoD compliance.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have an active Secret Clearance and be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret Clearance.

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field with 24 years of relevant experience (or equivalent combination of education and hands-on technical experience).

• Must have an active CompTIA Security Certification (DoD 8570 compliance).

• 12 years of practical experience with cloud services (AWS preferred) including basic configuration of services like Route53 VPCs and VPNs.

• Solid hands-on understanding of network protocols TCP/IP routing IPSec tunnels subnetting and network segmentation.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot standard network issues in a structured enterprise environment.

• Familiarity or prior experience working with security tools such as Palo Alto Firewalls Tenable ACAS or Trellix ESS.

• Basic scripting and automation skills (e.g. exposure to Python bash or introductory knowledge of Terraform and Jenkins).

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