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United by a shared commitment to our customers’ success, we empower our people, support our communities, and operate sustainably. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide every aspect of our work, ensuring we do the right thing-for our customers, our people, and the world around us.\nThrive in a Mission-Focused Environment\nThe Leidos Defense Sector provides advanced systems, solutions, and services across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. From enterprise IT and large-scale intelligence systems to cybersecurity, geospatial analytics, logistics, and training, we support some of the nation’s most critical defense missions. Our teams take on challenges where failure is not an option-and succeed.\nWe are seeking an experienced AWS cloud professional to support the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Battle Network and its supporting infrastructure in Orlando, FL. Our team helps the DAF field and operate its Digital Infrastructure (DI). In this role, you will take part in day-to-day operations and in the long-term maturation of complex, mission-critical systems.\nAs a member of the DINM team, you will help maintain the DI-N and DI-NIL architectures and services, with a strong focus on cloud operations.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nCloud operations and management: Manage and monitor cloud environments. This includes system deployments, networking, VPC creation and management, security group maintenance, storage volume management, and backup and recovery.\nAccess and environment configuration: Work with customers to make sure environments are configured correctly and that access follows the principle of least privilege during stakeholder activities.\n Security and governance: Apply the AWS shared responsibility model, manage Identity and Access Management (IAM), and maintain compliance with applicable regulatory and DoD security standards.\nCost management and optimization: Analyze AWS services and usage to find and implement cost savings.\nPerformance and planning: Monitor system performance, support capacity forecasting, and contribute to cloud migration strategies.\nTechnical support: Support project-based technical work and manage support tickets, keeping cloud environments secure and available.\nDocumentation: Document builds, configurations, and process flows thoroughly so that every required task is recorded and repeatable.\n Verification and validation: Back up DI-NIL personnel on Verification and Validation (V&V) activities for the Digital Infrastructure Network.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree with 12+ years of prior relevant experience (additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree).\nAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification.\nUS Citizen; Currently possessing an Active DoD Secret clearance with the ability to upgrade to a TS/SCI clearance.\nDemonstrated knowledge of AWS cloud concepts and experience applying them to DoD programs.\nWorking knowledge of networking concepts.\nWorking knowledge of government system security scanning (ACAS/Nessus) and remediation, with the ability to discuss security issues and concerns.\nDemonstrated ability to troubleshoot, isolate, and resolve technical issues.\nExperience participating in design reviews and providing customer-focused input.\nDemonstrated ability to take part in cross-functional planning, coordination, and execution across the full range of system integration activities.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including:briefing both technical and non-technical audiences\ncollaborating with customer representatives, domain experts, and systems engineers\n\nAbility to work effectively with people from many disciplines and with varying levels of technical experience.\nPreferred Qualifications.\nMaster’s Degree with 10+ years of relevant experience.\n4 years of DoD-based system security testing (ACAS/Nessus) and remediation with the ability to discuss security issues and concerns.\nExperience supporting Department of the Air Force programs.\nExperience developing, maintaining, and validating Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).\nExperience administering Windows and/or Linux operating systems.\nExperience designing and deploying networks, including validating network topologies for functionality, performance, stability, and scalability.\nExperience designing and validating cloud and edge computing and network solutions.\nExperience in integration, test, verification, and validation, including developing test methodologies and writing test specifications.\nKnowledge of test automation and test results analysis.\nExperience working on complex, multi-domain systems.\nExperience with Agile execution, including SAFe, and with tools such as Jira and Confluence.\nDABAOPP1\nIf 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.\nOriginal Posting:\nOctober 22, 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.\nPay Range:\nPay 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. 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