Engineer and Implementation Manager

Description

Position Overview:

The Engineering and Implementation Manager leads and oversees all enterprise engineering initiatives supporting Consular Affairs (CA) systems across domestic data centers and overseas posts. This role provides technical leadership for physical and virtual hosting environments; including Windows, UNIX/Linux, IaaS, PaaS, and software-defined infrastructure, and plays a critical part in designing resilient, redundant, and scalable architectures. The Engineering and Implementation Manager is responsible for engineering services, technical planning, and implementation activities supporting CA's global infrastructure, ensuring secure and reliable operations while guiding cloud transition efforts and modernization strategies. This position requires strong leadership of a large engineering and operations staff and extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a large engineering and operations team responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining physical and virtual hosting environments across domestic and overseas CA locations.

• Provide engineering services for Windows and UNIX/Linux servers, hypervisors, converged infrastructure, IaaS/PaaS platforms, and cloud-transition architectures.

• Oversee enterprise-wide engineering and implementation of LAN and data center configurations, including network integration with Department of State (DoS) managed environments.

• Develop operational designs for mission-critical systems, ensuring resilience, redundancy, disaster recovery capability, and cross-data-center failover (active/active and active/passive).

• Engineer "shared nothing" standby infrastructure to support automated switchover/failover with minimal human intervention.

• Plan, prioritize, and execute multiple engineering projects in parallel while maintaining alignment with production operations.

• Manage the implementation of technical changes, design enhancements, and process improvements in highly complex enterprise environments.

• Collaborate with architects, developers, operations teams, and customer stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into actionable engineering solutions.

• Support the transition of applications/systems into cloud environments and hybrid architectures.

• Develop detailed project plans, engineering design documents, and implementation roadmaps for new capabilities, features, or infrastructure solutions.

• Ensure all infrastructure documentation is updated to reflect newly implemented changes, configurations, and system designs.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance.

• Master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management or a related field and 15+ years of relevant experience leading a large engineering and operations staff supporting programs of similar size, scope, and complexity. In lieu of degree, 20+ years experience required.

• Demonstrated experience managing the implementation of technical and process changes in complex enterprise infrastructure environments.

• Proven ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including architects, developers, and operations personnel, to gather requirements and design infrastructure capabilities.

• Demonstrated experience planning, prioritizing, and successfully delivering multiple concurrent engineering projects in coordination with production operations.

• Experience engineering solutions in both cloud and on-premises environments, including hybrid architectures and cloud transition strategies.

• Experience supporting the transition of systems/applications into cloud hosting environments (IaaS/PaaS/hybrid).

• Strong experience designing resilient architectures with redundancy, automated failover, disaster recovery, and multi-site hosting capabilities.

• Expertise with Windows and UNIX/Linux server platforms, virtualization technologies, networking, and enterprise storage.

• Experience developing technical project plans, engineering documentation, and implementation designs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience introducing new technologies, tools, and engineering processes to improve availability, monitoring, management, scalability, patching, and overall service delivery.

• Experience engineering and integrating networks within data centers and enterprise enclaves.

• Experience designing and implementing "shared nothing" architectures with active/active or active/passive failover capabilities.

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, automation/orchestration tools, or cloud-native services.

• Experience transitioning legacy systems to modern, cloud-ready architectures.

• Prior experience supporting the U.S. Department of State (DoS), FBI, or Intelligence Community (IC) programs is highly preferred.

• Experience with Oracle technologies, including database environments, clustering, or infrastructure integration, is desired.

• Relevant technical certifications (e.g., Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware, AWS/Azure, Cisco, Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) - Database or Cloud Infrastructure, CompTIA Security+ and SAFe Agile Cert.).

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

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos' name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system - never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.

If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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.