Senior PlatformOps/Cloud Engineer

Leidos is hiring an energetic, motivated, innovative individual to be a part of our team supporting Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, MD. The Cloud Engineer works closely with the Program team to manage, maintain, and optimize application's performance, durability, and cost to best support CMS and the general public. You will deliver solutions that ultimately ensure that the functions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace are carried out for the and contribute to efforts to reduce healthcare costs.

With a "no downtime, zero outages" vision and mantra, we support a range of hybrid and multi cloud based application needs, ranging from managed services to self-service, all of which are based on our customer's required level of support.

As a PlatformOps-Cloud Engineer you will be required to develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of industry best practices. You will influence development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results while also leading work of other technical staff. You will resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation. You will interact daily with various technical resources across different vendors which are fulfilling technical requirements for the customer.

Your goal will be to work with all stakeholders to help Leidos ensure delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions with minimal business impact. Lastly and most importantly, you will represent our program when meeting with the Application Development Organizations (ADO) and identify opportunities to provide support as well as modernization and innovation opportunities for their application.

The current work environment is remote leveraging various tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.

Primary Responsibilities:
Build and maintain products focused on application development lifecycle automation
Work with the cloud, security, testing, and application teams to build orchestration pipelines
Build, support, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that conduct multiple deployments a day
Provide guidance and stewardship in Agile and DevOps practices that maximize flow
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by establishing and participating in feedback loops
Meet with ADOs on a regular cadence to provide support and identify opportunities for optimization
Serve as a main point of contact for all technical needs and become the subject matter expert of the applications the team manages.
Provide consult and leadership to Mid-level and Jr. DevOps team members and application teams
Become a subject matter expert with CMS Hybrid Cloud and CMS Enterprise Shared Service offerings
Develop strong relationships and partnerships with the other CMS Hybrid Cloud Product Teams
Continuously refresh infrastructure components such as EC2 instances, Cloud Formation Stacks, Kubernetes clusters, containers, etc.
Promote strong quality control practices for all managed services as well as maintain robust documentation
Build and support components of a microservice based architecture
Work independently to resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation
Apply Product Management principles to develop, maintain, optimize, and evangelize various products across the CMS ecosystem
Evangelize internally and to the customer the value propositions of products built.
Influence development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results while also leading work of other technical staff
Conduct formal presentations on platform innovative solutions to the Architecture Review Board
Work closely with team manager on strategic initiatives of platform services from initial onboarding to the long-term support of ADO's platform services.

Basic Qualifications:
BS degree and 7+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 5+ years of prior relevant experience. Experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
Cloud Certification (e.g., AWS SysOps Administrator, Azure Administrator).
Experience building and maintaining the following platform services: GitHub, SonarQube, CloudBees CI, Snyk, and Jfrog Artifactory.
Demonstrated experience in providing stellar customer support and meeting customer SLA's (customer support experience in the platform services listed above is a plus).
Knowledge of cloud-based security tools, best practices and policies including demonstrated experience protecting all layers of the application stack.
Knowledge of the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC).
Cloud cost structures and basic FinOps knowledge.
Strong and relevant experience in cloud technologies, cloud services, IaC, cloud storage, cloud networking and cloud security.
Extensive experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Helm, Packer, etc.
Extensive experience with container build and orchestration: Kubernetes and/or Docker Swarm.
Build Tools: Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub
Dependency Management tools: Maven.
Configuration Management tools: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Git.
Strong knowledge and experience with Cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.
Extensive experience with AWS/Azure CLI, shell languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell), and formal programming languages (e.g., Python, Golang, Rust).
Strong experience with containers (Docker, ECS, EKS), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware, KVM) architectures.
Ability to successfully manage multiple product workstreams and work with multiple product owners.
Capable of providing technical leadership and mentorship.
Efficient communication, zero handoff mentality.
Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage conflict effectively.
Ability to adapt and be productive in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations.
Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player.

Preferred Qualifications:
Expert level cloud certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AZ-400)
Proven ability to work with challenging customers
Extensive experience and understanding of automating manual processes.
Experience with implementing platform services in a hybrid cloud hosting environment.
Agile-based knowledge and skill, including experience with Scrum Ceremonies and work management tools (e.g., (JIRA, Confluence).
Security Skills-Knowledge of information assurance compliance and information security basics within CMS.

Required Clearance
Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior in order to be considered.

Original Posting:
May 7, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:
Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.