Engineering and Implementation Manager

Leidos Holdings Inc

Arlington, VA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$154,050–$278,475 Per Year
SKILLS
Best Practices, Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Documentation, Emerging Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Enterprise Applications, ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), Incident Response, Information Technology & Information Systems, Leadership, Legal, Maintain Compliance, Operational Strategy, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Process Improvement, Process Management, Production Systems, Project Tracking, Reporting Dashboards, Scalable System Development, Schedule Development, Security Compliance, Service Delivery, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Software Administration, Software Patches, Splunk, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Strategic Planning, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Technical/Engineering Design, Time Management, Top Secret Clearance, Virtual Hosting
LOCATION
Arlington, VA
POSTED
8 days ago

The Engineering and Implementation Manager oversees all engineering projects and leads the 24/7/365 Enterprise Operations Center (EOC), delivering mission‑critical services that support physical and virtual hosting environments for all Consular Affairs (CA) systems domestically and abroad. This role provides strategic leadership for infrastructure planning, architecture development, enterprise monitoring strategy, and implementation across on‑premises and cloud environments. The manager directs Tier II and Tier III incident coordination and ensures effective enterprise monitoring using tools such as Oracle Enterprise Manager, Splunk, AppDynamics, and Zabbix. This role is responsible for ensuring full visibility, alerting, and dashboard capabilities across all DT/EA/CST IT environments, while driving resilience, modernization, and operational excellence.

Location: This position is located in the Arlington, Reston, Dulles, and Washington, DC area.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and manage engineering teams and the 24/7/365 EOC responsible for monitoring, operations, and incident response across global CA infrastructure.

  • Oversee design, implementation, and optimization of physical and virtual hosting environments supporting enterprise applications domestically and overseas.

  • Direct strategic infrastructure planning and build resilient, scalable architecture for mission‑critical systems.

  • Develop, implement, and mature enterprise monitoring strategies leveraging tools such as Oracle Enterprise Manager, Splunk, AppDynamics, and Zabbix.

  • Ensure robust alerting, visibility, and dashboard capabilities across all on‑premises and cloud environments.

  • Coordinate and track all Tier II and Tier III incidents, ensuring timely escalation, triage, and resolution aligned with mission objectives.

  • Lead technical design sessions, infrastructure reviews, and engineering initiatives in collaboration with stakeholders.

  • Manage concurrent engineering and implementation projects within production environments, ensuring delivery on schedule and within established standards.

  • Oversee system and application transitions to cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and security requirements are met.

  • Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, technical roadmaps, SOPs, and operational documentation.

  • Identify, propose, and integrate emerging technologies and process improvements to enhance operational efficiency.

  • Ensure compliance with governance, security, SLAs, OLAs, and industry best practices.

Required Qualifications:

  • Master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management or a related field. In lieu of degree, additional experience may be required.

  • Active TS clearance.

  • 15 years of experience managing and leading large engineering and operations teams for projects of similar size, scope, and complexity.

  • 15 years of experience managing enterprise monitoring, operations center functions, and triaging critical incidents aligned with mission needs.

  • Demonstrated experience managing technical and process changes within complex infrastructure environments and collaborating with stakeholders to design and provision enterprise infrastructure.

  • Proven experience leading multiple engineering and implementation projects in parallel within production environments.

  • Experience managing system and application transitions to cloud environments.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience introducing new technologies and processes to improve service delivery, monitoring, support, patching, and scalability.

  • ITIL Intermediate Level Certification Version 5 or higher.

  • PMP certification.

  • Experience with enterprise monitoring tools and platforms such as Oracle Enterprise Manager, Splunk, AppDynamics, and Zabbix.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

June 12, 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:

Pay Range $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

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.

About the Company

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Leidos Holdings Inc

SAIC is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's digital transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, IT modernization, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions. We are a team of 26,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.1 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2013
WEBSITE
https://jobs.saic.com/