
AWS Cloud Systems Engineer
Leidos
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $107,900 - $195,050 per year
About the role
- Design and architect scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions across AWS and others.
- Develop cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with organization objectives and technical requirements.
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals.
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
- Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments.
- Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements.
- Implement / integrate with identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
- Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption.
- Manage and optimize AWS, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems.
- Implement and maintain tools and services such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices.
- Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency.
- Support the design and development of Shared Services.
- Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.
- Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability.
- Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes.
- Conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.
- Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years or more of experience; Master’s and 6+ years or more of experience, additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Must have a Secret Clearance.
- US citizenship required.
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2).
- Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position.
- Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, Jira, Confluence, Git, and multiple AWS cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
- Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premises or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk.
Benefits
- paid time off (PTO)
- flexible schedules
- discounted stock purchase plans
- career growth
- education and training support
- parental paid leave
- more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architectureDevOps practicesinfrastructure as codeapplication performance optimizationsecurity assessmentsSQL databasesNoSQL databasescontainerizationautomation frameworkscustomer onboarding
Soft Skills
customer servicecommunicationcollaboration
Certifications
CompTIA Security+Secret Clearance