About the Role
Leidos UK & EUROPE are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join the company. If you cannot see a vacancy on the careers page that matches your current requirements, you can register your interest via 'Join Our Talent Community' on the UK careers page, and they will be in touch as soon as a role matching your skill set becomes available.
Location: Future vacancies could be available in Bristol, Farnborough or Whiteley (Hampshire). Due to growth within UK programmes, Leidos will need talented Cloud Engineers throughout the course of 2026.
The mission is to ensure that Leidos stands out in an increasingly popular market place, through creative solutions to problems using innovative design, implementation and testing of systems and services with a focus on scalability and sustainability. Specifically, you will be part of a DevOps team transforming, supporting and maintaining a system of critical national infrastructure to public cloud, adhering to engineering best practices. You will be expected to work closely with team members and the broader programme to transition legacy infrastructure to AWS Cloud. You should be comfortable supporting other team members where required and interact closely with developers and testers. Highly technical in nature, you will need demonstrable experience of transitioning legacy platforms to AWS. The legacy platform utilises a wide variety of technologies, so you must be flexible and quick to acquire new skills.
Requirements
•AWS with Linux technologies
•Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible
•Demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment
•Experience of applying security to all workloads
•Experience of working with CI/CD infrastructure pipelines
•Demonstrable experience of automating deployment and configuration pipelines of COTS software and promoting through multiple environments
•Experience of working in Agile teams, being aware of Agile methodologies (using Scrum or Kanban)
•Excellent communication skills
•Candidate must be a UK National
•Must be able to obtain an SC level clearance
Desirable:
•AWS Qualifications in your area of expertise
•Experience of working with the Atlassian toolset (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo)
•Experience with biometric systems
Clearance: Clearance to Start — BPSS; Clearance for Role — SC. You must be willing to undergo SC or DV clearance dependent upon the security requirements for the role.
Benefits
•Contributory Pension Scheme
•Private Medical Insurance
•33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
•Flexible Working Scheme
About Leidos
Leidos UK & EUROPE works to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services; its work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
Pay Range: £44,700.00–£57,300.00. The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.
