Leidos

Platform Engineering Lead

Leidos

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: FloridaTexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $131,300 - $237,350 per year

Job Level

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
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Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsibleCI/CD pipelinesPythonPowerShellBashLinuxWindows ServerDocker
Soft Skills
technical leadershippeople managementmentoringcollaborationcommunicationrelationship managementexpectation managementteam leadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solving