Infrastructure Engineer

The Military Family Life Counseling Program (MFLC) is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer who will design, deploy, and maintain our computing environments in support of our in-house developed applications and business intelligence and analytics operations.  This position will work with developers and analysts to implement solutions.  The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building, deploying, and monitoring environments in AWS.

If you have strong IT skills, a data engineering mindset, and strong communications skills, come join our veteran-friendly company as we shape the future of innovation.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize our AWS infrastructure. 

• Develop, implement, and maintain automated processes using Go, Python, or Kotlin. 

• Collaborate with developers and analysts to implement solutions. 

• Monitor and troubleshoot system performance and reliability. 

• Assist in capacity planning and cost optimization of AWS resources. 

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our infrastructure and processes. 

• Managing backup and recovery. 

• Risk management - SWOT Analysis. 

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience or a Masters with a minimum of 6 years of prior relevant experience

• Must have strong proficiency in AWS services, particularly EC2, S3, RDS, and networking. 

• Must have strong proficiency with network fundamentals (routing, stateless, and stateful firewalls). 

• Some experience with Go, Python, Kotlin, or any other programming language. 

• Must have proficiency with Linux – RHEL and Amazon Linux. 

• Knowledge of distributed computing concepts and trade-offs. 

• Knowledge of OSI Model Layers. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with other AWS services such as Lambda or EMR 

• Familiarity with Message Queues and Caching with Redis.  

• Experience implementing telemetry collection and environment monitoring. 

• Experience maintaining infrastructure for high-availability services 

• Experience with Build Server(CI/CD) and Blue/Green deployments. 

• Experience designing infrastructure needs for big data technologies  

• Familiarity with ETL processes and data pipeline development 

• Experience with SELinux enforcing and creating policy rules. 

Original Posting Date:

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:

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.