Automation & Cloud Engineering Manager

Description

Job Description:

Leidos CIO Service’s Enterprise Infrastructure team is seeking an Automation & Cloud Engineering Manager, with deep enterprise-level experience architecting, designing, and documenting an overall Intelligent Automation strategy for the business. In this role, you will collaborate across Enterprise Infrastructure and our business customers to analyze and understand individual business processes and lead efforts to develop automation strategy and solutions to reduce manual processes, improve quality, and help our business partners increase velocity.

You will bring together agile software development methodologies and best practice, IT operations workflows, business processes, and good security practices with a modern toolset to help develop, integrate, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration as code (CaC) using a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation life cycle.

You will also support Least Privilege and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and information security (INFOSEC) efforts.

The successful candidate must possess the ability to work well in a distributed team agile environment. You should be of a highly ethical, trustworthy and reliable nature. The ability to utilize our Service Now system to adhere to rigid ITIL based change and release control processes and procedures are critical. You should also be able to demonstrate superior analytical and problem solving skills, as well as the ability to offer high levels of service to our customers, staff and management

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate across Hosting Services and our business customers to analyze and understand individual business processes and lead efforts to develop automations to reduce manual processes, improve quality, and help our business partners increase velocity.
• Promote and help create automated testing, transparency in code, and secure coding practices to ensure the reliability, dependability, and compliance of scripted and automated solutions deployed into production environments.
• Focus on identifying, assessing, and developing solutions to address IT business and mission use cases across a variety of vendor and in-house solutions to maximize task automation through scripting
• Provide familiarity with automation tools and DevOps principles such as version control repositories and CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide familiarity with the Agile SAFe process and enabling the team to complete work through Agile concepts. 
• Create and refine the vision and roadmap for automation within the organization, work with stakeholders in the organization to define new projects and initiatives.
• Collaborate and work with other tower team managers on automation opportunities and process change.
• Work with Product Owners to ensure Agile stories and features are created that align with the goals of the epic.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience related to automation and cloud. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of Bachelor's degree.
• Prior experience should also include the following areas: Business Process Automation, Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, Software Development, DevOps
• In-depth technical knowledge of cloud and on-premises systems architecture, operating platforms, and automation tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with: cloud automation using AWS and/or Azure.
• Proficient, collaborative, demonstrable experience in automating manual processes across a variety of applications
• Ability to quickly learn new applications and business processes.
• RESTful development and CI/CD
• Project Management with Agile

Pay Range:

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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 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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