Cloud Systems Owner

Leidos is seeking Lead Cloud Systems Owner to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector supporting the development of next-generation flight service and air traffic systems. This work aligns with the FAAs broader initiative to modernize legacy flight service capabilities replacing aging infrastructure with scalable cloud-based platforms designed to improve safety and operational efficiencyparticularly in remote and high-dependency aviation environments. These efforts focus on delivering mission-critical future-ready solutions that provide safety-critical flight services to the pilot community.

Please note this exciting position is currently unfunded and is in anticipation of future work.

In this position you will serve as the Cloud System Owner for one or more cloud-hosted environments supporting Agile software development teams and production systems. You will be responsible for provisioning securing automating maintaining and continuously improving cloud infrastructure that supports mission-critical FAA applications. Working closely with software engineers systems engineers cybersecurity personnel DevSecOps engineers and Product Owners you will ensure development integration test and production environments remain reliable secure scalable and compliant throughout the software lifecycle.

This position supports government programs and requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design deploy administer and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting development integration testing and production environments.

• Administer and maintain Kubernetes cluster infrastructure including node groups upgrades networking and RBAC.

• Manage Kubernetes platform-level configurations including ingress controllers network policies storage classes and cluster-wide Helm releases.

• Own and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation defining approved modules and management deployment state across all environments.

• Configure and manage AWS cloud services including networking compute storage identity and security services.

• Automate system provisioning and configuration management using Ansible or comparable tools.

• Develop automation scripts using Bash and Python to support infrastructure operations system health and compliance tasks.

• Configure and manage Linux servers storage package management services and security controls.

• Implement identity and access management using AWS IAM RBAC Active Directory LDAP or related technologies.

• Manage secrets certificates encryption keys and PKI assets using AWS Secrets Manager AWS KMS HashiCorp Vault or similar technologies.

• Troubleshoot infrastructure networking container and application issues across cloud environments.

• Monitor platform health availability performance and operational metrics.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies while supporting development teams through rapid infrastructure delivery.

• Document system configurations operational procedures architecture decisions and recovery processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field with 4 years of relevant experience or Masters degree with 2 years of experience

• Experience administering AWS or GCP cloud environments

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines

• Linux administration experience

• Experience with scripting using Bash or Python

• Knowledge of Git version control

• Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP DNS routing firewalls and load balancing

• Experience implementing IAM and security best practices

• Ability to obtain SF-85 Public Trust suitability determination

• US Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting FAA or DoD systems

• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices

• Experience supporting highly available cloud environments

• Experience with observability platforms and monitoring solutions

• Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD)

• AWS or GCP certifications

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