Are you ready to work for a company that not only supports mission critical projects but also prioritizes investing in the growth and development of its employees?

​Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead! You will enjoy great benefits such as paid time off (PTO), flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, career growth, education and training support, parental paid leave and more! You will have the opportunity to work under exceptional industry leadership at every level, where prioritizing employees, and their work, is paramount.

​The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos is brimming with exciting new opportunities—and we want you to be part of it!

​Join our team working on one of our most prestigious programs delivering Cloud modernization and operations to the Department of the Air Force on the Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services (ACSS) contract.

​Leidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for an AWS Cloud Systems Engineer Jr. ​This position focuses on AWS Engineering and is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.

​Location:
This position will be hybrid remote, selected candidates will be required to travel onsite as needed.

​Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including other Cloud One environment teams, development, operations, security, and product management.

• Use and drive adoption of DevSecOps practices and related automation such as GitLab pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and automated testing.

• Implement / integrate with identity and access management solutions, security monitoring frameworks, and other multi-cloud common services.

• Support customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption.

• Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of experience.

• Must have an active Secret clearance.

• US citizenship required.

• IAT-2 and one or more cloud certifications within 6 months of hire.

• Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position.

• Experience administering Windows and Linux Servers, and related services.

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

• Experience with AWS console, services, and infrastructure as code automation, Jira, Confluence, GitLab and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1.

• Experience with Zero Trust Architecture.

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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:

April 14, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $69,550.00 - $125,725.00

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.