Leidos is pursuing the A1 Multi-Cloud Ecosystem (A1 MCE) Managed Services Support contract and currently has an opening for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer providing technical oversight for the reliability, availability, performance, and operational resilience within a multi-cloud environment. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for reliability engineering support across multi-cloud environment, ensuring availability, performance, scalability, and resilience of mission-critical services.
- Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to reduce manual operations, standardize deployments, and enable automated remediation.
- Establish enterprise observability and performance management, including monitoring, logging, tracing, SLOs, dashboards, alerting, and capacity planning.
- Lead incident response and continuous improvement, including complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and implementation of corrective actions.
- Integrate SRE practices with DevSecOps and cybersecurity, embedding reliability, security, automated testing, and operational readiness into CI/CD pipelines and cloud modernization activities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors and at least 12 years or more of experience; Masters at least 10 years or more of experience.
- Secret clearance required to start; Ability to obtain Secret clearance required to maintain employment
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes architecture
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks and container security best practices
- Strong troubleshooting, performance optimization and platform reliability engineering skills
- US citizenship required
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT Level 2)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
- Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
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Original Posting:
September 23, 2026For U.S. Positions: 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 $116,350.00 - $210,325.00The 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.
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Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government & commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead, visit careers.leidos.com for our latest opportunities.
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