Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Leidos is hiring an energetic, motivated, innovative individual to be a part of our team supporting Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, MD. The Cloud Engineer works closely with the Program team to manage, maintain, and optimize application’s performance, durability, and cost to best support CMS and the general public. You will deliver solutions that ultimately ensure that the functions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace are carried out for the US citizen and contribute to efforts to reduce healthcare costs.

With a “no downtime, zero outages” vision and mantra, we support a range of hybrid and multi cloud based application needs, ranging from managed services to self-service, all of which are based on our customer’s required level of support. 

As a Cloud Engineer you will be required to develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of industry best practices. You will influence development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results while also leading work of other technical staff. You will resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation. You will interact daily with various technical resources across different vendors which are fulfilling technical requirements for the customer. 

Your goal will be to work with all stakeholders to help Leidos ensure delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions with minimal business impact. Lastly and most importantly, you will represent our program when meeting with the Application Development Organizations (ADO) and identify opportunities to provide support as well as modernization and innovation opportunities for their application.

The current work environment is remote leveraging various tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain products focused on application development lifecycle automation
• Work with the cloud, security, testing, and application teams to build orchestration pipelines
• Build, support, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that conduct multiple deployments a day
• Provide guidance and stewardship in Agile and DevOps practices that maximize flow
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by establishing and participating in feedback loops
• Meet with ADOs on a regular cadence to provide support and identify opportunities for optimization
• Serve as a main point of contact for all technical needs and become the subject matter expert of the applications the team manages.
• Provide consult and leadership to Mid-level and Jr. DevOps team members and application teams
• Become a subject matter expert with CMS Hybrid …