Infrastructure / Cloud Lead (Local Development Centre)

Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Infrastructure / Cloud Lead to support the Local Development Centre (LDC) in Singapore. This role provides technical leadership for cloud platform design, infrastructure automation, environment provisioning, and operational engineering while working closely with customer engineers in a collaborative capability-building environment.

The successful candidate will establish cloud infrastructure standards, drive platform automation and reliability practices, support deployment and configuration of production and non-production environments, and contribute to long-term engineering capability development through mentoring, knowledge transfer, and hands-on collaboration.

Leidos is a global technology company delivering innovative solutions across aviation, transportation, defense, government, and critical infrastructure domains. In Singapore, Leidos partners with customers, industry, and research organizations to solve complex operational challenges through advanced engineering and digital transformation.

Joining us will allow you to:

• Lead the design and operation of modern cloud-based engineering platforms.
• Influence infrastructure architecture, automation, and platform engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers and build long-term customer capability.
• Work closely with customers in a collaborative development environment.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Singapore and the United States.

Infrastructure / Cloud Lead Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of cloud and infrastructure platforms supporting development, testing, and production environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to infrastructure and cloud engineers within the LDC.
• Establish infrastructure engineering standards, operational processes, and platform best practices.
• Drive co-development activities with customer engineers and support knowledge-transfer initiatives.
• Collaborate with software, DevSecOps, systems integration, test, and reliability engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Support infrastructure automation, configuration management, environment provisioning, and operational readiness activities.
• Participate in technical planning, architecture reviews, risk management, and delivery activities.
• Ensure infrastructure platforms meet security, reliability, availability, and performance requirements.
• Champion modern cloud engineering, automation, and platform engineering practices to improve operational efficiency and engineering productivity.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or systems administration.
• Experience leading infrastructure or cloud engineering teams on complex technology programs, working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or equivalent environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, infrastructure architecture, networking, security, and operational support.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management, and cloud deployment practices.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting knowledge transfer, workforce development, training, technical capability development.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience leading co-development teams involving customers, partners, or contractor personnel.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, container platforms, CI/CD, and operational monitoring solutions.
• Cloud-related certifications are desirable.
• Experience working in regulated, mission-critical, or highly available operational environments.
• Aviation, transportation, defense, government, or critical infrastructure domain experience is desirable.
• Proficiency in English and one or more regional languages is desirable.
• Candidates with existing authorization to work in Singapore.

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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.

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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.