Cloud Administrator

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a U.S. Government program responsible to prevent identify contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks / wide area networks (LAN / WAN) commercial Internet connection public facing websites wireless mobile / cellular various cloud environments security devices servers and workstations. The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems and collects investigates and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations. We are seeking a skilled and motivated Cloud Administrator to join our growing team .

Primary Responsibilities :

The Cloud Administrator will play a key role in managing maintaining optimizing and deploying the organizations cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the efficient and secure operation of our cloud-based services with a focus on performance scalability and cost-effectiveness. You will also be responsible for managing cloud resources troubleshooting issues and ensuring best practices are followed to maintain a high level of availability and reliability.

The Cloud Administrator will design develop deploy and manage the organizations cloud infrastructure services and security applications to ensure that the environment is scalable reliable secure and cost-effective. They will work with various cloud platforms such as AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud and others and will focus on day-to-day operations of the environment handling tasks such as provisioning monitoring troubleshooting and optimizing cloud resources and systems.

The Cloud Administrator must have a deep understanding and knowledge of various cloud technologies systems and platforms ( e.g. AWS Microsoft Azure GCP etc.). Additionally the Cloud Engineer / Administrator should have understanding of cloud infrastructure management technologies ( e.g. CloudFormation Ansible Puppet Terraform etc.).

Candidates must have the ability to script in one more of the following computer languages Python Bash Visual Basic or PowerShell.

Below are some tools / skills the candidate should have knowledge or experience on :

5-7 years experience in a Cloud Engineering / Admin role or an equivalent of 3-5 years in Cybersecurity.

Hands on experience with AWS Microsoft Azure GCP or other Cloud platforms . These may include EC2 Storage Lambda S3 VPC Storage Gateways

Experience with and knowledge of implementing Infrastructure-as-Code ( IaC ) using tools like Terraform AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

Ability to use scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell Python) and cloud automation tools (e.g. Terraform Ansible) to streamline provisioning scaling and maintenance tasks.

Experience with and ability to implement cloud security best practices including identity and access management data encryption firewalls and network security. Ability to ensure compliance with industry standards and internal policies.

Hands on experience with and knowledge of networking concepts (DNS VPNs load balancers etc.) and cloud-based networking configurations.

Experience with orchestration tools like Ansible Chef or Puppet for configuration management and ability to implement Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) pipelines for cloud infrastructure provisioning and deployment automation.

Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to resolve complex technical issues in a timely manner .

Understanding of SOPs Playbooks and experience in creating documentation.

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelors degree and 8 years of related experience . Additional years of experience and cyber certifications may be considered in lieu of degree.

Familiar with the management operational and technical aspects of IT Security in a complex enterprise environment. Additional experience in cyber risk management and assessments will be considered.

Deep working knowledge of public cloud providers (AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud) and services (compute networking storage databases).

Strong written and oral communication with the ability to communicate with team members management and customer .

Experience with Docker Kubernetes and container orchestration within a cloud environment.

Proficient in using Infrastructure-as-Code ( IaC ) tools like Terraform AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.

Solid understanding of cloud security practices IAM encryption VPNs firewalls and security tools.

Proficiency in networking concepts and configurations such as VPCs subnets VPNs DNS load balancers and security groups.

Clearance :

Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

Preferred Qualifications :

Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Software Development Information Technology Cyber Security or related field.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate / Professional Microsoft Certified : Azure Administrator Associate Google Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent certifications.

Ability to script in one more of the following computer languages Python Bash Visual Basic or PowerShell.

Experience with cloud monitoring tools (e.g. AWS CloudWatch Azure Monitor Datadog) and cost optimization strategies.

Expert experience and ability to immediately contribute to Automation Tasks and Infrastructure-as-Code tools and templates.

Were not looking for perfectly polished resumes or perfect fits. Were looking for people who break limits ask hard questions and dont wait to be told whats next. At Leidos were not following the roadmap were redrawing it.

Original Posting : November 4 2025

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.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $104650.00 - $189175.00

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.

Required Experience :

Unclear Seniority

Key Skills

Hadoop,Microsoft Windows Server,Windows,Apache,Linux,SAN,Shell Scripting,System Administration,Administrative Experience,Scripting,Oracle,Troubleshooting

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 104650 - 189175