Cloud Security Team Lead

Leidos seeks a Cloud Security Team Lead to guide a high-performing security engineering team protecting mission-critical government and commercial systems. In this role, you will architect and implement secure cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, or GCP; define standards and controls; and drive automation for monitoring, incident response, and compliance. You'll collaborate closely with DevOps and engineering to embed security into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and digital modernization initiatives. Leidos offers a mission-driven, collaborative culture, flexible work options, and significant opportunities to grow your expertise and impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a cloud security engineering team supporting mission-critical systems
• Design and implement secure cloud architectures across AWS/Azure/GCPDefine and enforce cloud security standards, policies, and best practices
• Implement identity, access management, encryption, and network security controls
• Coordinate vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation
• Collaborate with Dev
• Ops and engineering on secure CI/CD and infrastructure as code
• Conduct risk assessments, threat modeling, and security reviews for new solutions
• Develop security monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud environments
• Partner with stakeholders to meet regulatory, compliance, and customer requirements
• Champion continuous improvement, automation, and security-by-design culture

Required Skills

• Cloud security architecture
• AWS/Azure/GCP security services
• Identity and access management (IAM)
• Network security and segmentation in cloud
• Encryption and key management (KMS, HSM)
• Security monitoring, logging, and SIEMDev
• Sec
• Ops and CI/CD security
• Infrastructure as Code security (Terraform/Cloud
• Formation)
• Vulnerability management and incident response
• Compliance frameworks (Fed
• RAMP, NIST, ISO 27001)