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Cloud Engineer Lead

Leidos Open · verified Oct 24, 2026
San Antonio Full-time Senior Cloud

At a glance

Senior Cloud role at Leidos. San Antonio · full-time · $131,300–$237,350 base.

SalaryStated by Leidos
$131,300 – $237,350
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
RoleCloud
SenioritySenior
LocationSan Antonio
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$131,300–$237,350
PostedOct 23, 2026 · 1d ago
Role brief

devopsroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Lead the cloud engineering team as it operates and maintains several cloud environments
  • Control cloud capacity and spending, including arranging for additional cloud space
  • Shape cloud designs and connect compute, storage and networking services to meet customer needs
  • Turn customer requirements into cloud patterns, present options and guide decisions on the solution
  • Review systems and workflows for automation, then communicate technical findings and support system policies

What you bring

  • At least seven years designing application architecture for commercial cloud platforms, including application development
  • Bring hands-on knowledge of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and public, private or hybrid cloud designs
  • Have a bachelor's degree in a related engineering or computing field, or equivalent experience; the posting also allows a master's route
  • Have experience moving applications to cloud at scale and using IaC, CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment

Who this fits

This is an onsite role in San Antonio, near Lackland Air Force Base. It suits a senior cloud engineer ready to lead a team, guide solution decisions and deliver project objectives. The listed education and experience routes include a bachelor's degree with twelve years of related experience, a master's with ten years, or additional related experience, training or certifications in place of a degree.

From the employer

Leidos is seeking a highly qualified candidate for the Cloud Engineer lead to work in our San Antonio, TX office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience assisting the Integrated Defensive Cyber System mission. The ideal candidate will have ​experience creating and developing cloud environments supporting multiple capabilities.


This position is located near Lackland Air Force Base; all work is onsite.


Primary Responsibilities:


  • Manage and lead the cloud engineering team to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of multiple cloud environments.
  • Manage cloud resources, including budgeting and cloud space procurement.
  • Assign tasks, manage workloads, and provide performance execution leadership and guidance.
  • Apply experience architecting, developing, and re-engineering applications to leverage benefits of cloud capabilities of elasticity, horizontal scalability, automation, and high availability
  • Lead the design of cloud solutions and integration of tools and services for all areas of cloud computing including compute, storage, and networking
  • Ensure designs are compatible with the target cloud environments and allocated requirements
  • Collaborate with customer and other stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate into effective cloud patterns; present solution options and drive decisions on the way ahead to meet customer needs
  • Establish and maintain relationships with Leidos partners, key vendors, and within Leidos to seek, qualify and leverage the best ideas, solutions, and models to meet customer needs
  • Address user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate and improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
  • Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, cost estimation, requirements allocation, and interfaced definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
  • Summarize and communicate technical results
  • Support the development, documentation, and execution of system policies
  • Understand all applicable performance standards and ensure that all Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met or exceeded
  • Works to achieve key project/program objectives and deliverables. Works to influence project/team leaders regarding solution design, process and/or approaches
  • Requires expert knowledge of and ability to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts


Basic Qualifications:


  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience with 12+ years in software development, system engineering or related field or master’s with 10+ years. Additional years of related experience, training, and/or certifications accepted in lieu of a degree
  • 7+ years technical application architecture experience including architecting, designing, and programming applications to operate in a commercial cloud (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI) environment
  • Experienced in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS) Cloud Hosting Architecture /Design patterns to meet scalability, capacity, availability, performance, storage, cost, and application/platform requirements
  • Experience with Cloud technologies including public, private and hybrid cloud solutions
  • Experience in design, development, and deployment of application software
  • Experience migrating applications to the Cloud at scale
  • Knowledge of Agile and processes and techniques and SDLC
  • Experience with Develops practices including IaC, CI/CD pipeline, and automated deployment



Preferred Qualifications:


  • Experience with IdAM solutions in the Cloud
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Security+ Certification

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

October 23, 2026

For 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 $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

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.

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