Description

Job Description:

Leidos is seeking a SME Cloud Automation Engineer to support a federal customer within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Security Operations Center (SOC). Responsibilities include:

• Build automation tooling and pipelines that enable protected systems to be deployed across a variety of environments, including public/private cloud, virtual machines, or bare metal servers
• Coordinate directly with senior customer Leadership on recommendations, planning, and paths forward for cloud automation and transitioning
• Collaborate with the engineer team to design and develop automation to standardize and secure cloud services
• Ability to collect customer requirements, design, and automate security controls, data collection, and other processes to enhance operational support and metrics
• Aid in the integration of monitoring solutions for cloud systems
• Solving challenging problems involving system and environment internals, to provide solutions that are simple to use, but can be customized to meet customer needs
• Collaborating directly as a SME with stakeholders related to build releases and ensure builds provide a consistent core foundation for hosting government and commercial applications
• Ability quickly adapt to various APIs to support automation needs for SOC engineers and security analyst needs
• Find innovative ways to streamline overall Security operations, investigative and incident response tasks
• Supporting technologies and products, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, RedHat Linux, Satellite, Git, GitOps, Python
• Integrate directly with a team of SOC Security Engineers to develop customized solutions to customer challenges

Qualifications

• Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Must have at least 8 years of progressive technical experience that demonstrates relevant skills in Cybersecurity Engineering and Cloud technologies.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline. Additional applicable military or relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree
• Cybersecurity-related advanced certification considered a must
• Security Operations experience considered a must
• Must have hands-on experience with Cloud technologies and service providers such as AWS and Azure
• Can apply security first principles to solve complex technical challenges
• Python programming and other scripting languages critical to this position's success
• Experience with automation development
• Must be able to work independently and within a team environment.

External Referral Bonus:
Eligible

External Referral Bonus $:
5000

Potential for Telework:
No

Clearance Level Required:
Top Secret

Travel:
Yes, 10% of the time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Shift:
Day

Requisition Category:
Professional

Job Family:
Cyber Operations

Pay Range: