SIL and Cloud Engineering Lead

LLeidos seeks highly qualified Systems Integration Lab Manager with a strong working knowledge of network engineering to provide expert guidance and direction underpinning Leidos on-site support to Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/Cyber and Networks Directorate.
If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead the systems integration lab to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of lab facilities.
• Ensure the Cloud team is tasked appropriately and possesses the skillsets to effectively manage a large AWS environment.
• Ensure the cloud solutions provided by the team leverages elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation, and high availability.
• Collaborate with customer and other stakeholders to understand their requirements and ensure these requirements are translated into effective cloud patterns; present solution options and drive decisions on the way ahead to meet customer needs
• Manage lab resources, including budgeting and equipment/material procurement.
• Provide expert full system engineering lifecycle support on complex data systems and networks.
• Assign tasks, manage workloads, and provide performance execution leadership and guidance.
• Responsible for the surveying, engineering, installing, configuring, and reliably operating computer systems, servers, and networks.
• Provide strategic leadership on complex policy issues involving technology such as Data Analytics, Autonomous Systems, and Cybersecurity
• Integrate hardware, software, and network solutions to enhance the Air Force’s HNCD operational capabilities, with focus on ensuring interoperability between different systems and platforms
• System engineering expertise required for some or all the following areas: system architecture and design; requirements analysis and development; data flow analysis; network design and implementation; and testing and documentation
• Provide guidance for system development and implementation through plans assessment
• Develop system configuration documentation, to include designs for capacity and performance planning; performing risk assessments; and analyses of alternatives for a variety of system related issues and concerns
• Supervise or coordinate the work of other contractor engineers or technicians on various projects
• Analyze and propose appropriate engineering standards and processes and assist in conducting evaluations to determine suitability for project implementation and develop new or innovative approaches to technical or engineering issues
• Support rigorous testing and validation of systems in simulated and real-world environments
• Mentor junior systems engineers to build technical expertise within the organization and foster collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
• Communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means
• Prepare and perform briefings appropriate for senior leadership (i.e., general officer or flag officer)
• Support development of standards, metrics and measures to support assessments, process improvements and operational efficiencies across HNCD

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of related experience or a Masters and 10+ years of related experience. A combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• US Citizen with at least a Secret security clearance eligible to upgrade to Top Secret for access to SCI.
• DoD 8570 certifications.
• IAT II, OS.
• Demonstrated technical team leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience working within the Agile framework.
• Prior experience with designing, deploying, testing, implementing, and migrating network infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with SD-WAN technologies (e.g. Cisco, VERSA, Juniper, etc.).
• Extensive knowledge/experience of large-scale WAN, MPLS, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS), and internet technologies.
• Strong campus/enterprise networking experience.
• Able to conduct research into networking issues and products as required.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Visio.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with API automation/orchestration tools/systems such as Ansible and Python Scripting.
• Familiarity working within structured CI/CD DevOps pipelines.
• Strong understanding of virtualization, hypervisor, HCI, cloud-native, and container technologies.
• Prior experience with Public/Gov/DoD Cloud environments and implementing virtualized network infrastructure.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, IAM permissions, storage, and infrastructure security concepts.
• Understanding of SIEM/SOAR platforms, their operational functions, and supporting infrastructure dependencies.
• Experience supporting Elastic SIEM, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, or comparable security platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Firewalls (e.g. Palo Alto, Cisco, Juniper, etc.).
• Familiarity/Experience with Remote Access VPN solutions, IPsec, TLS, PKI.
• Strong understanding of SASE/SSE Zero Trust principles/products (Cisco Secure Access, Prisma, zScaler, VERSA, AppGate, etc.).
• Professional and/or Expert level Certifications/Specializations in industry leading SDN technology (e.g. Cisco, Juniper, VERSA, etc.).
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies including public, private and hybrid cloud solutions
• Experience supporting Kubernetes environments, including workloads, deployments, pods, services, and application connectivity.
• Knowledge of Agile and processes and techniques and SDLC
• Maintain current knowledge of industry trends and tools to provide best-practice insight and best-in-class recommendations to management.
• Demonstrated advanced technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to solve problems and resolve project dysfunction using creativity or leveraging core values. Experience should be beyond just user admin level and include building environments from the ground up, maintenance and deep troubleshooting.

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Original Posting:

November 10, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

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.