Join the Leidos Homeland Sector and contribute to a high-impact international program delivering secure, next-generation private cloud capabilities within a NATO-secured environment. This senior-level role offers the opportunity to apply deep technical expertise to the design, integration, and hands-on implementation of enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber resilience solutions supporting a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
You will help deliver secure, resilient, and automated data protection capabilities across Enterprise Core Services (ECS), Client Provisioning Services (CPS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Service Management Control (SMC). Working closely with infrastructure, virtualization, cybersecurity, and DevOps teams, you will support the full delivery lifecycle—from solution design and integration through site deployment, testing, disaster recovery validation, and customer acceptance.
This position offers an exciting opportunity to work directly with international customers and technical partners, with approximately 25% travel to The Hague, Netherlands, and other NATO locations as needed to support solution integration, implementation, testing, and customer acceptance. It is an ideal opportunity for a senior engineering leader interested in advancing mission-critical cloud capabilities while gaining valuable international program experience.
Responsibilities:
Lead the design, integration, and hands-on implementation of enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber resilience solutions supporting VMware private cloud SDDC modernization initiatives.
Lead the implementation and integration of Rubrik Security Cloud -Private data protection solutions supporting mission-critical workloads and services.
Develop secure, resilient data protection strategies supporting Enterprise Core Services (ECS), Client Provisioning Services (CPS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Service Management Control (SMC).
Collaborate with infrastructure, virtualization, storage, cybersecurity, and DevOps engineering teams to integrate enterprise backup and recovery capabilities into platform solutions.
Develop automation for backup provisioning, policy management, recovery workflows, and configuration management using scripting, APIs, and or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies.
Design and validate disaster recovery, cyber recovery, backup restoration, and business continuity capabilities supporting mission-critical platforms.
Develop and maintain backup architectures, engineering designs, implementation plans, recovery procedures, configuration standards, and technical documentation.
Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning, technical reviews, engineering design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration.
Mentor customer engineers and provide technical guidance on enterprise backup, cyber resilience, secure data protection, and recovery best practices.
Travel to NATO sites to install, configure, integrate, validate, test, and troubleshoot enterprise backup and recovery solutions while supporting deployment, disaster recovery validation, and customer acceptance activities.
Support infrastructure modernization initiatives, technical planning, cyber resilience strategy, and proposal development activities.
Required Experience, Skills, and Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline with 8–12 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 6–10 years of relevant experience.
Active NATO Secret clearance (or higher).
Automation and API first demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
Working knowledge of Rubrik Security Cloud -Private backup and recovery platform, including deployment, configuration, integration, backup policy management, and recovery operations.
Experience designing and integrating backup and recovery solutions supporting VMware-based private cloud and virtualized environments.
Strong understanding of disaster recovery, cyber resilience, immutable backup, ransomware protection, and business continuity principles.
Experience integrating backup solutions with enterprise storage, virtualization, cloud, and infrastructure platforms.
Experience implementing automation using scripting, APIs, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar technologies.
Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, storage, virtualization, networking, and enterprise cybersecurity practices.
Experience operating within Agile, SAFe, or DevSecOps delivery frameworks.
Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, and technical collaboration skills.
Experience supporting defense, government, or highly regulated development environments.
Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education:
Rubrik Certified Professional (RCP) or equivalent certification.
VMware certification (VCP or equivalent).
Experience supporting NATO environments and compliance frameworks.
Working knowledge of Veeam Backup & Replication or equivalent enterprise backup platforms.
Experience with immutable backup architectures, cyber recovery vaults, and enterprise ransomware recovery strategies.
Familiarity with cloud-native backup technologies and hybrid cloud data protection.
Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure modernization and enterprise platform engineering initiatives.
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August 10, 2026
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 $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
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.
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 48,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023.
Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®.
Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos.
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