Senior Cloud Systems Owner

**Description** Leidos is seeking **Senior Cloud Systems Owners** to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the development of next\-generation flight service and air traffic systems. This work aligns with the FAA's broader initiative to modernize legacy flight service capabilities, replacing aging infrastructure with scalable, cloud\-based platforms designed to improve safety and operational efficiency—particularly in remote and high\-dependency aviation environments. These efforts focus on delivering mission\-critical, future\-ready solutions that provide safety\-critical flight services to the pilot community. **Please note, this exciting position is currently unfunded and is in anticipation of future work.** In this position, you will serve as a **Senior Cloud Systems Owner** responsible for the technical leadership, architecture, and operational management of one or more enterprise cloud\-hosted environments supporting Agile software development teams and production systems. You will lead the design and evolution of cloud infrastructure, establish platform engineering standards, and ensure environments remain secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally ready throughout the software lifecycle. Working closely with software engineers, systems engineers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, Product Owners, and solution architects, you will help deliver reliable cloud platforms that enable mission\-critical FAA applications. This position supports government programs and requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust investigation. **Primary Responsibilities** * Lead the design, deployment, administration, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure supporting development, integration, testing, and production environments. * Provide technical leadership for Kubernetes platform administration, including cluster architecture, node lifecycle management, networking, RBAC, storage, upgrades, scalability, and operational health. * Establish and maintain Kubernetes platform standards including ingress controllers, network policies, storage classes, cluster\-wide Helm deployments, and platform security configurations. * Develop and govern Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation, creating reusable modules and establishing infrastructure standards across multiple environments. * Design and manage AWS cloud services including networking, compute, storage, identity, and security services to support highly available and resilient systems. * Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Ansible, Bash, Python, or similar technologies to improve provisioning, operational consistency, system health, and compliance. * Lead Linux platform administration including operating system lifecycle management, storage management, patching, hardening, and performance optimization. * Design and implement identity and access management solutions using AWS IAM, Ku