Leidos

Site Reliability Engineer

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5 days ago
Baltimore, MD, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$108k - $195k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly available AWS infrastructure within the CMS AWS Enclave and connected Pega Cloud for Government environments.
  • Architect secure multi-account VPC connectivity using PrivateLink, API Gateway, Direct Connect, and related cloud networking services.
  • Define and track SLOs, error budgets, reliability metrics, and availability targets aligned with contract SLAs.
  • Build centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability across AWS and Pega environments.
  • Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and environment build-out using Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management tools.
  • Design and test disaster recovery, backup, failover, Multi-AZ, and Multi-Region capabilities.
  • Support performance testing and capacity planning for up to 20,000 concurrent CSR sessions and peak enrollment volumes.
  • Support continuous security monitoring, vulnerability remediation, Zero Trust alignment, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning, and deployment.
  • Support AWS data-migration infrastructure using Glue, S3, and RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL between Siebel and the modernized CRM.
  • Coordinate provisioning, patching, lifecycle management, release coordination, and change windows with CMS and delivery teams.
  • Support integration of Genesys Cloud CX infrastructure and telephony and chat channels with the CRM environment.
  • Document architecture, operational runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, requirements traceability, and integration architecture.
  • Mentor engineers and communicate technical status, risks, dependencies, and operational needs to CMS and Leidos leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6–8 years of relevant experience in cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience building highly available AWS infrastructure using industry best practices and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and configuration management for cloud resources.
  • Experience designing disaster recovery for cloud workloads, including Multi-AZ and Multi-Region resilience.
  • Ability to obtain Public Trust.
  • Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator certification.
  • Preferred: AWS GovCloud and FedRAMP-authorized cloud environment experience.
  • Preferred: Pega Cloud for Government or comparable SaaS connectivity experience, including AWS PrivateLink or VPC peering.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with Docker, ECS, EKS, and Lambda architectures.
  • Preferred: Experience with Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, observability, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Preferred: Experience supporting federal contact center or other 24x7 mission-critical government systems.
  • Preferred: Agile delivery experience.

Benefits

  • Work is based in Leidos’s Baltimore, Maryland office.
  • The posting states a pay range of $107,900.00–$195,050.00.
  • The role supports a government CRM modernization mission involving CMS, AWS Enclave, AWS GovCloud, and Pega Cloud for Government.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSDockerSplunkTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Leidos

10,000+ employees

Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.

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