Cloud Architect

Leidos is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to design and establish secure, scalable cloud platforms for mission-critical applications operating in accredited U.S. Government environments. This is a hands-on role working across software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity/RMF, data, and government platform teams to move solutions from development into secure, supportable production environments.

The ideal candidate combines deep cloud engineering expertise with experience navigating government authorization constraints. The role will establish reusable cloud architecture patterns across products and teams, including landing zones, cloud services, identity, connectivity, deployment, and environment progression-reducing duplicated effort and accelerating delivery into accredited environments.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure government cloud architectures, including landing zones, networking, identity, storage, databases, application hosting, monitoring, and other required cloud services.
• Translate application, data, integration, performance, security, and operational requirements into scalable, supportable solutions, making tradeoffs among security, reliability, performance, cost, and delivery time explicit.
• Personally build, review, test, and troubleshoot critical cloud components, including infrastructure-as-code, cloud configurations, deployment automation, identity and access controls, networking, observability, and system integrations.
• Lead resolution of complex technical problems across application and cloud environments, using logs, metrics, traces, targeted testing, and systematic root-cause analysis to validate solutions and reduce recurrence.
• Design for authorization from the start, maximizing reuse of authorized services, inherited controls, and existing government platform capabilities while partnering with cybersecurity/RMF teams on boundaries, data flows, interfaces, ports/protocols, and interconnections.
• Establish secure deployment and integration patterns with engineering and DevSecOps teams, including CI/CD, artifact promotion, configuration management, automated validation, environment progression, APIs, data movement, and multi-enclave connectivity.
• Create reusable engineering assets, including tested infrastructure-as-code modules, reference implementations, architecture patterns, deployment templates, technical standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guidance that can be adopted across products and teams.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through delivery and operations, mentoring engineers through implementation and troubleshooting while ensuring production readiness, observability, resiliency, recovery, rollback, supportability, and capacity/cost planning., CI/CD Ansible Scripting Terraform Pipelines Operations Leadership Automation Kubernetes Scalability Multi-Cloud Communication Microsoft Azure Problem Solving Computer Science Google Workspace Docker (Software) Incident Response Cloud Engineering IT Infrastructure User Provisioning Business Valuation Root Cause Analysis Amazon Web Services Cloud Infrastructure Information Technology Full Stack Development Artificial Intelligence Business Transformation Bash (Scripting Language) Go (Programming Language) Containerized Application Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Python (Programming Language) Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) +0 Senior Cloud Engineer TEKsystems

Jacksonville, FL*Remote

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Milwaukee, WI*Remote

CI/CD DevOps Ansible Scripting Terraform Operations Automation Governance Kubernetes Scalability Multi-Cloud Self-Starter Communication Cloud Strategy Microsoft Azure Access Controls Cloud Migration Computer Science Cloud Operations Google Workspace Docker (Software) Incident Response Cloud Engineering Business Valuation Root Cause Analysis Security Governance Software Engineering Cloud Infrastructure Information Technology Cloud-Native Computing Full Stack Development Business Transformation Containerized Application Product Family Engineering Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) +0

Equities DevSecOps Operations Automation Mentorship Resilience Scalability Reliability Market Data Azure Policy Observability Azure Monitor Cyber Security Cloud Services Cloud Security API Management Microsoft Azure Access Controls Azure Cosmos DB Knowledge Graph Computer Science Application Data Cloud Governance Cloud Engineering Azure Data Factory Security Clearance Technical Standard Information Systems Software Deployment Application Hosting Software Engineering Technical Leadership Production Readiness Configuration Management Authorization (Computing) Platform As A Service (PaaS) Extract Transform Load (ETL) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Cloud Computing Architecture Identity And Access Management Systematic Root Cause Analysis Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) Application Programming Interface (API), * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Extensive hands-on Microsoft Azure architecture and engineering experience, including networking, identity and access management, PaaS services, application hosting, data services, security, monitoring, and resiliency.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering production systems in U.S. Government, DoD, or similarly regulated cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of government cloud security and authorization requirements, including zero trust, least privilege, security boundaries, inherited controls, and DoD RMF/ATO considerations.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud landing zones, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, environment progression, and secure software deployment patterns.
• Experience architecting complex integrations across cloud, enterprise, and restricted environments, including APIs, identity, data movement, network boundaries, and multi-enclave solutions.
• Demonstrated experience developing reusable cloud architecture patterns and technical standards that support multiple applications, products, or engineering teams.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the U.S. Government security clearance and privileged environment access required for assigned work., * Experience designing and operating solutions in classified government cloud environments, including SIPR or equivalent.
• Deep experience with Azure PaaS and data services, particularly Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, API Management, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience architecting enterprise data, knowledge graph, analytics, or AI-enabled platforms in secure cloud environments.
• Experience establishing cloud governance and FinOps practices across multiple subscriptions, products, or programs.

Advanced Microsoft Azure architecture or security certifications.

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.

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That’s why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits .

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .