Description

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, modernize 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 US citizen and contribute to efforts to reduce healthcare costs.

As a 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

Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by establishing and participating in feedback loops

Meet with applications 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.

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

Work independently to resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation

Basic Qualifications:

Works independently under “minimal supervision." Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 4 years pf experience. Additional years of experience can be substituted in lieu of degree.

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).

Experience in cloud technologies, cloud services, IaC, cloud storage, cloud networking and cloud security.

Package Management tools: rpm, pip.

Experience with container build and orchestration: Kubernetes, EKS, ECS

Operatizing System Setup and Best practices: RHEL, AL2, AL23, Windows

Build Tools: Jenkins, GitHub

Experience with CI/CD Tools: Sonarqube, Snyk,

Dependency Management tools: Maven.

Configuration Management tools: Ansible, Terraform, Git.

Experience with Cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.

Experience working with Fisma compliant systems

Experience with AWS config best practices

Experience with CloudWatch logs and Metrics

Experience with AWS/Azure CLI, shell languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell), and formal programming languages (e.g., Python, Golang, Rust).

Experience with containers (Docker, ECS, EKS), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware, KVM) architectures.

Experience bootstrapping and automating the build of complete environments.

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:

Cloud Certification (e.g., AWS SysOps Administrator, Azure Administrator).

Proven ability to work with challenging customers

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 clearanceAll candidates supporting the CMS programs must havelived in theUnited Statesatleastthree(3)out ofthelastfive(5)yearsprior in order to be considered.

Original Posting Date:

2025-02-19

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 $85,150.00 - $153,925.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

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REQNUMBER: R-00153835

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.