Cloud Developer

Description

Position: Cloud Developer

Location: Melbourne, FL (Patrick SFB)

Make an Impact with Leidos

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the dedication of our diverse and talented teams. United by a shared commitment to our customers' success, we empower our people, support our communities, and operate sustainably. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide every aspect of our work, ensuring we do the right thing-for our customers, our people, and the world around us.

Thrive in an Impactful Environment

The Leidos Defense Sector offers a broad portfolio of systems, solutions, and services across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We support critical defense missions with capabilities in enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence operations. Our teams tackle the world's toughest security challenges for customers with "can't fail" missions.

Leidos Defense Sector is seeking an Cloud Developer to join our engineering team to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native solutions. The ideal candidate combines strong serverless development skills (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions), hands-on data engineering experience (ETL/ELT, streaming, data lakes), and expertise with XML transformation tools. This role partners with product, and data teams to deliver reliable, performant systems to mobilize trusted data for customer services.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy cloudnative applications and microservices on AWS using serverless and containerbased architectures

• Implement, maintain, and optimize XML transformation workflows using tools such as XSLT, Apache DFDL, Saxon, or Altova MapForce

• Build and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and storage pipelines (batch and streaming) to support analytics and ML workloads

• Develop APIs and backend services using serverless frameworks (Lambda, API Gateway) and eventdriven architectures (SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis)

• Collaborate with data engineers to model, optimize, and operationalize data workflows across S3, Glue, Redshift, Snowflake, and related platforms

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using IaC tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK) and CI/CD pipelines

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance, cost, and reliability; implement observability using CloudWatch, XRay, Prometheus/Grafana

• Apply security best practices across the stack (IAM, KMS, VPC, encryption, least privilege) and ensure compliance with DoD security policies

• Produce and maintain documentation, runbooks, and code reviews; participate in postincident reviews

• Support oncall rotation and occasional afterhours work as needed

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciple with 4+ years of relevant experience. Additional experience, training, or certifications may substitute for degree

• U.S. citizen; Currently possessing an Active DoD Top Secret clearance and eligibility for Top Secret/SCI

• IAT Level II certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+) or ability to earn within 6 months of hire

• 2+ years of handson AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM, RDS/DynamoDB, VPC, CloudWatch)

• Strong programming skills in at least one serverlessfriendly language (Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Java, or Go)

• Experience building data pipelines and working with data stores (S3, Redshift, DynamoDB, RDS)

• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and CI/CD pipelines

• Hands on experience with code repositories such as Git, GitLab, GitHub

• Knowledge of RESTful API design, eventdriven architectures, and asynchronous processing

• Experience with observability and troubleshooting in production environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with streaming technologies (Kinesis, Kafka, Glue Streaming)

• Handson experience with Apache NiFi, including custom processors, flow versioning, and integration with Kafka, HDFS/S3, and downstream ETL systems

• Familiarity with serverless orchestration (Step Functions) and workflow automation

• AWS certifications (Developer, Solutions Architect, or Data Analytics)

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, EKS)

• Strong understanding of security and compliance controls for cloud data systems

• Experience with AI tooling such as Bedrock, SageMaker, Q, etc.

• Experience with Hashicorp

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work crossfunctionally

Ready to make an impact? Start your meaningful career journey with Leidos-submit your resume today!

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.

For U.S. Positions: 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.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.