
Platform Engineering Lead
Leidos
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Florida • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $131,300 - $237,350 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Provide both technical leadership and people management associated with the lifecycle of data center technology.
- Supervisor for Platform and Tools Engineers within the organization.
- Mentoring and development of team members, fostering technical growth and career progression.
- Collaborating with the Architecture team in developing multi-year technology roadmaps.
- Work with leads in other sub-systems, customers, and process owners to ensure solution integration.
- Communicate complex technical ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Manage the expectations of senior leadership, product teams, and end-users.
- Establish and maintain relationships with vendors and customers.
- Work in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and participate in Agile Team events.
- Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and other tools.
- Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Design and optimize enterprise database platforms with high availability.
- Develop automation scripts for operational efficiency and system management.
- Oversee the lifecycle of corporate server operating systems.
- Ensure security compliance and manage incident response.
- Produce and maintain documentation of the data center environment.
- Adhere to company policies and processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline and 8+ years of experience; or an associate’s degree with 10+ years of experience; or a High School diploma with 12+ years of experience.
- Managerial or Team Lead experience preferred.
- Solid knowledge and experience working with IT systems.
- Enterprise data center operations and capacity planning
- Experience with highly available enterprise systems and structured change management processes
- High availability and disaster recovery implementation
- Configuration management and deployment pipelines
- Security compliance: CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIG, NIST frameworks, SCAP compliance
- VMware vSphere 7.0+, ESXi 7.0+, vCenter 7.0+, Hyper-V
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform 1.0+, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP 2.x), Ansible Tower
- CI/CD tools: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
- Scripting: Python 3.x, PowerShell 7.x, Bash
- Version control: Git with branching strategies and GitOps practices
- Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7-10+, Ubuntu Server 18.04-24.04 LTS+
- Windows Server: 2016-2025+
- Active Directory, Azure AD/Entra ID, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, DFS
- Enterprise networking: TCP/IP, VLANs, VPN
- MS SQL Server 2016-2022: Always-On Availability Groups
- MySQL 8.0+ and/or PostgreSQL 13+, Oracle 19c+
- Docker containerization
- Kubernetes orchestration
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Health and Wellness programs
- Income Protection
- Paid Leave
- Retirement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsibleCI/CD pipelinesPythonPowerShellBashLinuxWindows ServerDocker
Soft Skills
technical leadershippeople managementmentoringcollaborationcommunicationrelationship managementexpectation managementteam leadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solving