Engineering & Architecture Manager

Leidos’ Digital Modernization Sector | Space, Air Force, & Defense Agencies (SpADe) Division is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering & Architecture Manager to support the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience modernizing a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness. This role will focus on engineering and architecture associated with the cloud environments ensuring the cloud infrastructure meets security, performance, and scalability requirements. This role will support the development of common shared services across the cloud environments.

The Cloud Engineering & Architecture Manager will provide leadership and mentorship to engineering staff, fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and adherence to organizational policies and standards. The successful candidate evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for total systems for systems requirements analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, technical management, integration, system testing, and quality assurance. The manager will drive service engineering best practices, project planning, and quality assurance, while improving performance against SLAs and implementing proactive actions including implementing automation to optimize operations.

The Cloud Engineering and Architecture Manager will be an integral part of the team that interacts with the customer to focus on optimization and enhancements to ensure satisfaction and assist with business growth and new task orders; the role requires partnership with multiple areas within Leidos to achieve business objectives in a dynamic environment with evolving program and proposal requirements.

*Please note - the position is based near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA) with telework/remote part of the time. Travel may be required to D.C. or other program locations to support customer or corporate meetings/events.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Engineering Oversight: Manage the engineering and architecture teams ensuring the cloud infrastructure meets security, performance, and scalability requirements

• ​Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineering staff, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement 

• ​Service Engineering and Integration: Engineer, implement, and deploy services using best practices for service delivery, incident management, and problem resolution, ensuring compliance with SLAs and KPIs

• ​Collaboration: Work closely with operations, application development, and business area to ensure alignment of cloud services with overall requirements and objectives 

• Manages engineering and architecture staffing including hiring and employee management while ensuring cleared and certified personnel are aligned to requirements

• Organize, direct and coordinate planning and execution of engineering activities, and review the work of subordinates, including subcontractors, to ensure that the schedule, standards, and reporting responsibilities are met.

• Identify and mitigate risks that could impact program success, develop risk mitigation strategies, and facilitate resolution.

• Provides leadership during Transition-In, ensuring continuity of operations, minimal disruption to mission-critical services, and effective risk identification and mitigation.

• Setting team priorities, strategic vision, maintaining quality and product roadmaps. 

• ​​Establish organization policies, standards, and engineering procedures. 

• ​​Project Monitoring and Control: Tracking project progress, monitoring performance against established SLA’s, metrics, and taking corrective actions as needed.  

• ​Quality Assurance: Ensuring that all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and requirements.  

• ​​Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices and documentation to enhance delivery quality and speed.

• Interacts with the customer directly and communicates concerns to Leidos project management and technical team members.

• Conduct design reviews, system integrations, and develop comprehensive as-built and runbook documentation.

• Implement and manage performance monitoring tools and processes to ensure optimal system performance and availability.

• Implement automation solutions, leveraging tools such as Ansible and various scripting languages, to streamline hosting operations and reduce manual intervention.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years relevant experience OR Master's degree and 6+ years of experience. 

• Extensive engineering experience on large-scale programs with experience in Cloud environments

• Proven ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with various stakeholders, including leadership, peers, and external partners

• Ability to operate independently with limited supervision while building strong relationships across technical staff, division managers, and peers

• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

• Disciplined strategic thinking and analytical problem-solving capabilities

• Strong business acumen, analytical capabilities, reliability, and sound judgment

• Experience with agile program execution

• Ability to travel as needed

• Must hold an active Secret security clearance prior to start  

• US Citizen

Preferred Qualifications

• Business development experience with Government contracting

• Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience

• Security+

• Cloud certification(s)

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