Senior Migration Architect
Leidos, Inc.
Alexandria, United States of America
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English, Cree Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 167KJob location
Remote
Alexandria, United States of America
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Security
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Github
Identity and Access Management
PCI Data Security Standards
Scrum
Ansible
Zero Trust Network Access
Information Technology Security Auditing
Docker Swarm
Delivery Pipeline
Multi-Cloud
Togaf
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Puppet
Terraform
Code Restructuring
Software Version Control
Legacy Systems
Jenkins
Microservices
Job description
- Assess existing IT infrastructure and legacy applicions to determine cloud readiness
- Assess legacy systems and design modernizion stregies including containerizion and microservices
- Develop migrion methodologies and ensure minimal organizional disruption during transitions
- Facilite customer onboarding and implement a consistent phway to cloud adoption
- Optimize applicion performance and reliability in cloud environments
- Designing target cloud architectures, select approprie migrion pterns and establish governance frameworks for cloud operions.
- Ensures cloud migrions maintain or improve performance, security, and compliance standards while optimizing costs and leveraging cloud-nive capabilities.
Stregic Architecture & Design
- Design and architect scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for legacy systems/capabilities to migre to AWS or Azure plforms
- Develop cloud stregy and roadmaps aligned with organizion objectives and technical requirements
- Cree reference architectures, design pterns, and technical standards for cloud implementions
- Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions
- Technical Leadership
- Serve as a primary technical authority on migring legacy, on-prem systems to the cloud
- Mentor, guide and supervise legacy system technology teams while migring their environments
- Evalue emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizional goals
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automion frameworks
Security & Compliance
- Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth stregies
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulory requirements
- Cost Management & Optimizion
- Monitor and optimize cloud spending through rightsizing, reserved instances, and automion
- Implement cost allocion stregies and provide regular cost analysis and recommendions
- Design solutions th balance performance requirements with cost considerions
- Establish governance frameworks for cloud resource management
- Collaborion & Communicion
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and transle them into technical solutions
- Collabore with cross-functional teams including development, operions, security, and product management
- Present architectural designs and recommendions to executive leadership
- Cree and maintain comprehensive technical documention, * Cross-Plform Expertise:
- Design pterns for multi-cloud and hybrid architectures
- Cloud-to-cloud integrion and da synchronizion stregies
- Cost optimizion across multiple cloud providers
- Migrion Services Expertise
- The 6 R's framework (Rehost, Replform, Refactor, Rearchitect, Retire, Retain)
- Wave-based migrion planning and execution
- Infrastructure and DevOps Qualificions
- Infrastructure as Code:
- Terraform for multi-cloud deployments
- AWS CloudFormion and Azure ARM temples
- Ansible, Puppet, or Chef for configurion management
- GitOps workflows and version control for infrastructure
- DevOps and Automion:
- CI/CD pipeline design using Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
- Container orchestrion with Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or managed services
Requirements
- Minimum Educion: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Informion Technology, Engineering, or reled technical field
- Preferred Educion: Master's degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or MBA with technical background
- Experience Requirements:
- 8+ years of overall IT experience
- 8+ years of hands-on cloud architecture and implemention experience
- 4+ years of experience with both AWS and Azure plforms
- Proven track record of managing cloud transformion projects exceeding $1M in scope
- Expertise In Azure and AWS (Certificions):
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert, * Cloud security posture management (CSPM)
- Identity and access management (IAM) best practices
- Compliance Standards:
- SOC 2 Type II compliance implemention
- GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS regulory requirements
- Industry-specific standards (FedRAMP, FISMA for government)
- Security audit and assessment experience
- Certificions (Required and Preferred)
- Additional Valuable Certificions:
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty
- Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associe
- Certified Kubernetes Administror (CKA)
- TOGAF 9 Certified
- CISSP or CISM for security focus
- Soft Skills and Leadership Qualities
- Communicion and Leadership:
- Ability to present complex technical concepts to C-level executives
- Experience mentoring junior architects and engineering teams
- Strong stakeholder management and consensus-building skills
- Technical writing and documention expertise
- Consulting Skills:
- Understanding of cloud economics and ROI calculions
- Experience with vendor negotiions and contract management
- Ability to align technical solutions with business objectives
- Knowledge of ITIL or other IT service management frameworks
Project Management:
- Agile/Scrum methodology experience
- Large-scale project delivery experience ($5M+ budgets)
- Risk management and mitigion stregies
- Change management and organizional transformion experience
About the company
At Leidos, we're not just delivering solutions - we're pioneering the future of defense and intelligence technology. Our diverse teams of innovors unite around a singular purpose: empowering our customers to succeed in their critical missions. We believe in leading with integrity, investing in our communities, and building sustainably for tomorrow.
Shape the future of digital defense.
Our Digital Modernizion sector is the forefront of next-generion technology, architecting cutting-edge solutions in cyber defense, logistics optimizion, security operions, and decision intelligence. We're the minds behind the mission-critical systems th keep our nion secure., Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximely $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more informion, visit www.Leidos.com.