SRE Technical Manager - Transport

Description More About the Role: Leidos currently has an opening on the Service Management Integration and Transport (SMIT) Contract for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Technical Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience and leadership skills to successfully execute the mission of the Navyu2019s largest IT services program. Under the SMIT Contract, the Leidos team is responsible for the core backbone for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, including cybersecurity services, network operations, network engineering, service desk, seat support services, and data transport. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced SRE Technical Manager to lead our Transport Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. In this role, you will manage a group of talented engineers responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems across 5-6 SRE Pods. You will work closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to implement best practices in automation, incident management, and system monitoring. This role will focus on both the strategic and operational aspects of site reliability, ensuring that the team meets performance objectives while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. The SRE Technical Manager will collaborate with the Director of Site Reliability Engineering and is responsible for supporting, migrating, automation and optimization of software development and deployment process, infrastructure as code, and maturing the Site Reliability Engineering program. The manager will mentor and coach technical staff performing collaborative code reviews to strengthen the SRE skills across the teams. What You'll Get to Do: u2022Manage and mentor 5-6 SRE teams (pods) and 60+ FTEs, providing guidance, setting performance expectations, and fostering professional development. u2022Work collaboratively with SRE Resource Managers to staff and maintain engineering resources for your SRE vertical teams' reliability and scalability goals. u2022Responsible for the P&L across the Transport Services vertical. Manage the SRE teamu2019s resources, including budget planning, tool selection, and infrastructure investments to meet reliability and scalability needs. u2022Meet regularly with your team members, participate in performance reviews and interviews, and development planning. u2022Oversee the reliability, availability, and performance of critical systems by leading the SRE teams within the data center vertical in implementing monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization strategies. u2022Ensure the team adheres to best practices for system reliability, automation, and operational efficiency. u2022Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing performance metrics (e.g., SLOs, MTTR, MTBF) and identifying areas for enhancement. u2022Collaborate with operations, quality, cybersecurity and other SRE engineering teams to define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and manage error budgets. u2022Act as a liaison between the SRE team and other departments to prioritize reliability and operational needs in the product development process. u2022Collaborate with senior leadership to define the SRE strategy, set long-term reliability goals, and ensure alignment with business objectives u2022Lead efforts to reduce operational toil through automation. Work with the team to build or enhance automation tools that manage infrastructure, monitor systems, and respond to incidents. u2022Oversee the development and adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, CI/CD pipelines, and other automation processes. u2022Ensure that SRE practices align with organizational security policies and compliance requirements. u2022Collaborate with security teams to integrate reliability-focused security practices into the design and operation of systems. u2022Ensure systems meet or exceed agreed-upon service levels by proactively addressing potential issues and working with stakeholders to align on reliability expectations. u2022Work within a SRE team, collaborating with other Developers, Security, and Operations, to continuously deliver products and increase the value stream for the organization and customers. u2022Embrace and champion Agile development processes and adoption to modern Site Reliability Engineering workflows and practices while providing technical guidance to team members and coworkers on best practices u2022Stay up to date on the latest Site Reliability Engineering practices and technologies. u2022Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and world-class service. u2022Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise sophisticated or consequential issues to senior management. You'll Bring These Qualifications: u2022Requires B.S. Degree (or equivalent) in Cybersecurity, Information Security, IT, Network Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or Master's with 6+ years of prior relevant experience with 8-10 years of SRE or DevOps experience and at least 4 years in a leader or manager capacity. u2022US Citizen with DoD Secret Clearance. u2022Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required prior to onboarding and must maintain certification while supporting the SMIT Contract. u2022Must be able to support program execution in classified environments and access SIPRNet from an NMCI location on short notice (local travel). u2022Exceptional written and oral communication skills include producing technical analysis/reports, presentations and executive level briefings with internal and external stakeholders. u2022Ability to review requirements, comprehend, and solution capabilities that satisfy customer requirements. u2022Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment. u2022Proven experience managing teams responsible for large-scale, distributed systems with high reliability and performance demands. u2022Strong track record of managing incidents, conducting postmortems, and implementing reliability improvements. u2022Experience implementing and managing Agile or DevOps processes, with a focus on continuous improvement, efficiency, and team productivity. u2022Ability to lead teams through strategic initiatives such as reliability maturity assessments, process automation, and tooling selection. u2022Solid understanding of SRE principles, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgeting. u2022Experience with commercial cloud infrastructure deployment environments such as AWS and Azure. u2022Strong knowledge of automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). u2022Experience with Agile and DevSecOps/SRE concepts and best practices. u2022Hand-on experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc.). u2022Experience creating JIRA and/or Azure DevOps workflows, projects, custom configurations. u2022Solid experience with integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab. u2022Experience with automated provisioning and configuration tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, or similar technologies. u2022Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF), DISA STIGs. These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have: u2022Previous work experience providing support to the NGEN-NMCI program is highly desired. u2022Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems. u2022Familiarity with serverless and event-driven architectures. u2022Certification in cloud platforms (e.g., Azure Certified DevOps Engineer). u2022Experience in high-growth environments or managing teams during significant scaling periods. u2022ITILv4 and Agile SAFe certifications or applicable experience. NGEN If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo u2014 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 u2014 and moving faster than anyone else dares. Original Posting: January 16, 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 $116,350.00 - $210,325.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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 Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. 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Created: 2026-01-19