DescriptionLeidos was awarded the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a Cybersecurity and Cloud Automation Engineer to support AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to modernize a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.Location: This position may require travel to support customer or corporate meetings near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA), Huntsville, AL or Reston, VA.Role Summary:Dual-role engineer focused on securing and automating AWS environments using IaC, CaC, and Security-as-Code.Works within DevSecOps teams to design secure cloud solutions and build automated provisioning, configuration, and monitoring pipelines.Core Responsibilities:Implement and maintain security controls for AWS services, aligned with NIST, FISMA, and DISA STIG requirements.Configure secure logging, monitoring, and telemetry (e.g., CloudTrail, CloudWatch, SIEM integrations) for cloud workloads.Perform vulnerability scanning, assessment, and coordination of remediation across cloud hosts, containers, and services.Contribute to security architecture reviews and change/configuration boards to ensure secure designs and deployments.IaC/CaC & Automation:Develop, maintain, and version-control IaC modules (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) for AWS networking, compute, storage, IAM, and security resources.Use CaC tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet) to automate OS, middleware, and application configuration and hardening.Build and support CI/CD pipelines that integrate IaC/CaC and security checks for automated build, test, and deployment.Create and maintain hardened, STIG/CIS-aligned golden images and reusable templates for repeatable secure deployments.Security-as-Code & Compliance:Encode security baselines, IAM policies, network segmentation, and encryption standards into