Cloud Virtualization Engineer

Description

Job Description:

Seeking a career with a sense of purpose, work life balance, and growth opportunities? There’s a place for you at Leidos! At Leidos, we are committed to making the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. You would be a valued member of global team providing services across civil, defense, health and intelligence business lines. At Leidos, team member career development, flexibility, and well-being are priority and is supported by consistent leadership engagement, an experienced human relations staff, and numerous employee support programs.

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The Enterprise and Cyber Solutions (E&CS) Operation within Leidos’ Defense Group is seeking an experienced Cloud Virtualization Engineer to support the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) Task Order for the GIG Service Management – Operations II (GSM-O II) contract.  This person should be a skilled technician knowledgeable and experienced in infrastructure as code environments, automating patches and system configurations, and with designing and engineering commercial cloud environments, architectures, and designs.

With the CESO program, the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) is looking to transform the existing Secure Web Services (SWS) environment, used to provide secure information sharing to the community, into a more mature service offering to meet the DoD and IC community.  As part of this task order, Leidos will manage the commercial cloud migration and disestablishment of VSD and CIS, fully automate the continuous development & continuous integration environment, fourth estate consolidation, professionalize services – ITIL/DevSecOps based processes, improve the customer experience 1st call resolution, and achieve development of a service catalog for Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) Model.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide continuous development and continuous integration to include operational engineering and integration, release management, implementation & migration, and training & knowledge transfer

• Operational Engineering and Integration:
  • Develop, document, and maintain functional, integration, security, and load/stress testing procedure
  • Document and deliver an approach for automated acceptance testing, integration/regression testing, all new applications, and all new capabilities
• Release Management:
  • Participate in the development of the release management process, procedures, and policies
  • Establish, manage, update, and maintain the overall Release Management Plan and Release Schedule
  • Conduct site surveys, as necessary, to assess existing equipment and software being used to validate release package requirements and dependencies
• Implementation & Migration:
  • Facilitate the migration of customer data and metadata onto the CESO architecture and applications
  • Develop, document, and maintain implementation and migration procedures
  • Install or migrate new and upgraded services components or services into operations
• Training & Knowledge Transfer
  • Develop, document, and maintain training and knowledge transfer procedures
  • Develop end-user training and knowledge management materials in support of new releases
  • Develop, implement, and maintain a CESO-accessible knowledge database/portal
  • Provide training when substantive technological changes are introduced

Basic Qualifications:

•    Candidate must possess an active DOD Top Secret level security clearance, and be eligible to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI. May be asked to obtain CI Poly in future.

•    BS and 10+ years of hands-on engineering and administration experience in virtualized environments, ideally with federal government. Add'l experience may be considered in lieu of degree

•   IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)

•   Ability to obtain an Amazon Operations certification within 120 days

•   Ability to obtain an Amazon Developer certification within 120 days

•    Strong knowledge of networking and operating systems

•    Virtualization, VM image builds & security hardening

•    Experience working in a high op-temp, top secret environment

Preferred Qualifications: 
•    Prior experienced with DISA and DISA’s support to mission partners

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Pay Range:

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.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 47,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.   For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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