Remote Senior Cloud Architect - Government Azure Expert

Koitecc Solutions; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos seeks a Senior Cloud Architect to design secure, scalable cloud platforms for mission-critical applications in accredited U.S. Government environments.

This hands-on role collaborates with software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity/RMF, and data teams to move solutions from development into production environments, establishing reusable cloud patterns across products and teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of relevant experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Extensive hands-on Microsoft Azure architecture and engineering experience across networking, IAM, PaaS, hosting, data services, security, monitoring, and resiliency.
• Experience delivering production systems in U.S. Government or similarly regulated cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of government cloud security, zero trust, least privilege, inherited controls, and RMF/ATO considerations.
• Experience designing landing zones, IaC, CI/CD, environment progression, and secure deployment patterns.
• Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government security clearance and privileged environment access.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure government cloud architectures, including landing zones, networking, identity, storage, databases, hosting, monitoring, and services.
• Translate requirements into scalable, secure solutions, balancing security, reliability, performance, cost and delivery time.
• Build, review, test, and troubleshooting critical cloud components, including IaC, configurations, deployment automation, IAM, networking and observability.
• Lead resolution of complex problems across application and cloud environments using logs, metrics, traces, and root-cause analysis.
• Design for authorization from the start, maximizing reuse of authorized services and inherited controls.
• Establish secure deployment patterns with CI/CD, artifact promotion, configuration management, and environment progression.
• Create reusable engineering assets: IaC modules, reference implementations, standards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentoring engineers to ensure production readiness and capacity planning.

Skills

Azure architecture

Cloud security

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

RMF/ATO

Governance & FinOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

Cosmos DB

Azure Data Factory

API Management

Key Vault

Azure Monitor

Azure Policy

Microsoft Entra ID

Job description

Leidos seeks a Senior Cloud Architect to design secure, scalable cloud platforms for mission-critical applications in accredited U.S. Government environments.

This hands-on role collaborates with software engineering, DevSecOps, cybersecurity/RMF, and data teams to move solutions from development into production environments, establishing reusable cloud patterns across products and teams.