Chief Engineer NASA AEGIS

The Digital Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Chief Engineer to lead engineering strategy and execution across all technologies and products included within the Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions (AEGIS) program scope. The position is located at NASAs Marshall Spaceflight Center (MSFC in Huntsville AL) or Kennedy Space Center (KSC in Cape Canaveral FL) highly preferred.

The AEGIS program is NASAs largest IT infrastructure services contract supporting enterprise IT and mission systems across data centers cloud platforms networks collaboration tools voice over IP and cybersecurity. As part of the AEGIS leadership team you will directly influence how NASA evolves to support missions on Earth in space and beyond.

Leidos is seeking an experienced innovative and highly technical individual to provide technical leadership to both NASA and Leidos stakeholders shape long-term modernization initiatives guide major service upgrades and ensure enterprise services continually evolve to meet NASAs mission needs. The ideal candidate is a trusted technical advisor a strategic thinker an energetic people leader and a recognized subject matter expert with broad experience across enterprise IT domains. The Chief Engineer will continuously assess the operational and functional baseline of our managed systems and services. The role is responsible for leading the engineering team while contributing to the program governance structure to ensure adoption of new technologies and/or configurations align with the overall direction of the Agency. The Chief Engineer will be directly responsible for the development management delivery and day-to-day maintenance of the technology roadmap to assist in improved forward schedule planning for enterprise services which includes planning for the introduction of tools and services to support new and emerging technologies and requirements.

As Chief Engineer for AEGIS youll help shape the future of NASAs enterprise IT landscape. Youll influence major modernization initiatives collaborate with top technical leaders and lead a large team to ensure NASAs infrastructure is prepared to support evolving mission needs. This role offers the opportunity to drive significant impact across one of the most innovative and mission-driven IT environments in the world.

Strategic & Technical Leadership

• Lead engineering across all AEGIS technologies including data centers cloud networking VoIP cybersecurity and collaboration services.
• Build strong relationships with senior NASA and Leidos leadership to ensure alignment with agency priorities.
• Continuously assess enterprise system baselines and recommend improvements to support modernization.
• Translate NASA OCIO and Office of Engineering objectives into actionable engineering priorities plans milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure daily engineering work remains aligned with long term organizational goals.

People Leadership

• Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team supporting networking firewalls VoIP data centers and cloud services across NASA.
• Foster a culture of innovation learning and technical excellence.
• Mentor engineers at all levels on career growth skills and technical decision making.
• Communicate clear expectations provide timely feedback and model strong leadership behaviors.
• Promote collaboration across engineering architecture security operations and program leadership.
• Cultivate accountability transparency and a strong customer service mindset.
• Ensure actions have clear owners due dates and follow through reducing tactical burden on the government Engineering Office.

Planning & Architecture

• Perform systems analysis and planning to support NASAs infrastructure strategy.
• Develop feasibility studies trend analyses business cases benchmarks and strategic roadmaps.
• Understand contract technical requirements and guide the team toward solutions meeting user needs and contract obligations.
• Review emerging technologies and assess impacts on NASA architectures standards and long term service evolution.

Engineering & Integration

• Lead design development integration testing deployment and logistics activities.
• Maintain visibility across engineering projects initiatives studies modernization efforts and operational work.
• Provide leadership with clear views of status schedules dependencies risks constraints and required decisions.
• Assess infrastructure impacts of new requirements and NASA network expansions.
• Operate network technology labs for asset management testing standards evaluation requirements analysis and technology investigation.
• Recommend standards for implementing new services across NASA.
• Ensure engineering coordination across networks telecommunications cable plant data centers cloud cybersecurity and voice/video.
• Identify dependencies and prevent cross-domain engineering conflicts.

Governance & Policy

• Support AEGIS program governance to ensure new technologies align with NASAs direction.
• Participate in NASA IT policy architecture standards and process reviews; recommend updates to maintain AEGIS compliance.
• Establish consistent engineering practices including design reviews documentation standards configuration management change control peer reviews and decision records.
• Ensure engineering consistency across technical areas.

Risk & Issue Management

• Advise the Program Manager on impacts to stability cost architecture interoperability or compatibility and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Implement structured methods for identifying prioritizing escalating and resolving risks and issues.
• Inform NASA and Leidos leadership early when risks may affect mission or service delivery.

Roadmaps & Long-Term Planning

• Develop strategic and implementation plans guiding the future of AEGIS services.
• Assess IT innovations product releases and technology changes to introduce new capabilities and retire outdated ones.
• Support development of comprehensive technology roadmaps capturing customer requirements and service evolution.
• Maintain the Five-Year Hardware Lifecycle Plan for AEGIS-supported hardware.

Collaboration & Innovation

• Maintain strong connections with the Leidos Digital Sector CTO and Solutions Architect organizations to leverage enterprise expertise.
• Support program growth by shaping innovative technical solutions and recommending improvements to services and operating models.

• Bachelors degree and 12 years of prior relevant experience.
• At least 7 years of experience managing a large engineering team as part of an IT organization.
• Strong leadership abilities; detail-oriented; effective under deadlines.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong budgeting and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning.
• Demonstrated success building relationships with customers and teammates.
• Experience executing development programs in an agile environment.
• Experience developing Estimates to Complete/Estimates at Completion (ETC/EAC).
• Ability to effectively communicate when briefing Leidos and NASA senior leadership.
• Technical knowledge across one or more of the following technologies:
  • Network Solutions (e.g. LAN WAN SDA SD-WAN)
  • Data Center Technologies (e.g. Virtualization Capacity Management Data Backup)
  • Cloud-based Architectures (e.g. AWS Azure GCP)
  • Collaboration Services (e.g. Conferencing VoIP)

• ITIL Certification.
• SAFe Agile Product Manager or Lean Portfolio Manager.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Experience working with NASA or other federal agencies.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance ranging from a Public Trust at minimum up to a Top Secret clearance as required.

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